Jane Hyphen

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I have 326 stories published in 3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 448114 times and 396 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Anthony and Cleopatra

Some days it’s all a blur; people are a blur, the weather blurs sun and cloud, windless air and blurred voices carried on the breeze, the blurred...
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I Didn't Kill the Scarlet Beetles

I didn’t kill the scarlet beetles Who fed and fornicated upon The pregnant buds of beauty My martagon lilies, frilly nods Which shalt not come if I...
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I Woke Up (in inverted commas)

I woke up in inverted commas. That is I woke but didn’t feel fully awake, it happens to all of us doesn’t it but this time it was different. There...
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I won't leave my Walled Garden

I won’t leave my walled garden Through scores of season cycles I’ve nursed and nourished soil And plucked the lump stone To form freethinking loam...
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Throwing Stones

‘You horrible lot will be working at Royal Ascot this summer.’ He looked at us as if we should feel honoured. A horrible lot, teenagers from...

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406 of my comments have received 431 Great Feedback votes

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Wonderful tribute to a

Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019

Wonderful tribute to a prickly beauty. Bee-full I love. One of the best smells I've ever experienced was on a coastal path in Pembrokeshire in May, the sun was out and the gorse scented the air, to me it was not unlike Pina Colada. Generally the...

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Posted in gorse

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It's a fail of a tale we

Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2019

It's a fail of a tale we teach our kids. Bad deeds will be punished, if not in life then in hell, look around it's easy to tell, the few reap what the many broke their backs to sow with next to nothing there to show.

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Posted in The Three Fields of You

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Get back in the cave, the

Posted on Wed, 06 Mar 2019

Get back in the cave, the flow of words is infinite and who know which spirit will be your next inspiration. I enjoy your writing syle, it's unique with touches of brilliance. 

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Posted in Ray Coach In Cave

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Thank you, it is shocking but

Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019

Thank you, it is shocking but having a site like this to go and writing friends is a great comfort

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Posted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)

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Wow, I like the way you have

Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019

Wow, I like the way you have described your human situation in horticultural terms. Move any established plant and for a good while it will be vulnerable in soil untrue.

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Posted in Roots

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This is a lovely snapshot in

Posted on Fri, 08 Mar 2019

This is a lovely snapshot in time Rhiannon. I feel like people stretched their imaginations a little more back then and then was less shame in choosing something a bit different and making use of what you had. 

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Posted in Gladys Aylward and Tenzing

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Yes she did @Di_Hard and Rod

Posted on Sat, 02 Mar 2019

Yes she did @Di_Hard and Rod and Karen didn't know how to react because that's not their currency.

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Posted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (3)

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This is beautiful Jenny.

Posted on Sun, 03 Mar 2019

This is beautiful Jenny. There is a sense of nature being effortless yet it always trumps human creations. I love the idea of it all being at your back door, I'm the same, I really appreciate my little garden and as one thing fades there is...

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Posted in Precious Nature

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I love it too, it's

Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019

I love it too, it's unconfined, perhaps you are a bird after all.

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Posted in Conversation of a Tree

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A storm, however brief does

Posted on Thu, 14 Feb 2019

A storm, however brief does seem to bring with it a change of behaviour in our wildlife as well as the palpable change in atmosphere. This is a lovely tribute. I really enjoyed 'globules released from dark sky splashing.' We missed most of the...

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Posted in Embracing The Storm

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