Jane Hyphen
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My stories have been read 382425 times
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324 of my 1,896 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 349 votes
My stories
My Eyes.....
I first discovered that my eyes could show me a hidden world when I was three years old. We were living in a new house, a small fifties semi with...
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The Right to Sparkle
‘You can’t ask her, there’s no point, she’s gaga!’ ‘Please don’t say that, Mike, it’s disrespectful and Dr Greaves said, we don’t really know what...
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White Van Man
White van man Ripping up the tarmac With cat guts in the tyre treads And tiny scattered wings Clinging to the wind shield Drill drilling in his ear...
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These are the Legs I Ordered.
These are the legs I ordered The ones I’ve always wanted Strong with shape and form Little in the way of wobble An ideal length with two knees Like...
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The Dream Tax
Dora held her phone a foot or so away from her eyes and squinted while she waited for the text to become less blurry. ‘Oh,’ she exclaimed, ‘I’ve just...
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This sounds like absolute
Posted on Tue, 25 Jul 2023
This sounds like absolute heaven. Maria making use of every bit of space to grow plants, useful or beautiful. It's interesting the way people will add to rubbish if they see rubbish, I think it's the same with grafitti and bags of dog poo. What a...
Read full commentPosted in Rakia Maria - Part One of Two
Thank you for this.
Posted on Sun, 23 Jul 2023
Thank you for this.
Read full commentPosted in Blueberry
A strong message, beautifully
Posted on Wed, 28 Jun 2023
A strong message, beautifully written.
It's the parents who have free childcare from grandparents who are the real winners. You only hope they repay the favour twice over. Brilliant POTD.
Read full commentPosted in The Things Missed
Interesting piece ice rivers.
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2023
Interesting piece ice rivers. I think we're perhaps at a sort of scientific crossroads when it comes to fertility. I believe the future of having babies will be quite different. The fertility fraud cases are terrifying, I wonder how many we don't...
Read full commentPosted in Crashing in a Fertile Field
A wonderful tribute to our
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2023
A wonderful tribute to our native and very vigorous growing blackberry. I have so many memories of picking and also finding a little white grub inside after biting the top off. The grubs just disappear in the jamming process. Good old-fashioned...
Read full commentPosted in Blackberry Moment
This is such a lovely story,
Posted on Fri, 16 Jun 2023
This is such a lovely story, Paul. It conveys the unease of imminent retirement and the need for something to cling to and the cat was the perfect thing. I love the leaf exchange and the tentative first steps of their relationship.
Read full commentPosted in A Cat, A Leaf and Fresh Fish
The complexity of your child
Posted on Wed, 31 May 2023
The complexity of your child going through the complex layers of the teenage years, everything coming together. It's a rollercoaster which lasts perhaps longer than the teens but if he has an outlet or two, music, the drums, then there is some ...
Read full commentPosted in new song
Playing cooking games is the
Posted on Mon, 29 May 2023
Playing cooking games is the best fun when you're a child, especially if you're allowed to use mud!
A lovely little poem, Rhiannon and that outfit is very cute.
Read full commentPosted in Little Cook!
This is so magical and May is
Posted on Mon, 29 May 2023
This is so magical and May is the most wonderful month for seeing nature at it's busiest. I have seen a few mayflies this week, they're quite easy to spot if you've seen a picture.
I particularly love the second verse, 'imposing columns...
Read full commentPosted in Nature's Wonders
There are so many rich
Posted on Thu, 25 May 2023
There are so many rich details in this poem. Zooming in on another world, you've expressed this amphibious enclave so artfully. Very much enjoyed and well deserved POTD...
Read full commentPosted in inklings
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