Jane Hyphen

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I have 412 stories published in 3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 997731 times and 528 of my stories have been cherry picked.
542 of my 2,866 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 574 votes

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Silver Skin

Young man lucid as an onion Silver skin thin and flint bones Jutt-jabbing from his span frame He shrinks under himself and Waters up as likely as a...
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The Volunteers

What became of the volunteers? At school they raised their hands Stretched them to the ceiling tiles While I looked down and made Myself as invisible...
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Drivers

My world is full of drivers Alone inside their spaceships I watch them going by See the furrows of their faces Eyes anchored to the road But the mind...
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Bedtime Rituals

The bedtime ritual, that’s what she called it, just a bit of organisation, a bit of tidying up before bed. In truth it was a monster, silent,...
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Brooksy

I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to Dire Straits but when one of those songs unexpectedly enters my consciousness it’s rather like a punctuation...
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542 of my comments have received 574 Great Feedback votes

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Wow, do you work for Reading

Posted on Tue, 17 Nov 2015

Wow, do you work for Reading Borough Council? This is brilliant, repellent, hilarious, well-written and the rest. Don't think I can eat dinner now though.

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Posted in my colleague

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Really enjoyable and

Posted on Tue, 17 Nov 2015

Really enjoyable and uplifting Rhiannon, making sense of the gloom, my least favourite month but you made it more beautiful.

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Posted in November

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This is so beautiful, from a

Posted on Wed, 04 Nov 2015

This is so beautiful, from a place felt, breaks the lines which separate what we perceive as our reality from the rest.

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Posted in Nights Such as These

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Rhus typhina - Stag's Horn

Posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2015

Rhus typhina - Stag's Horn Sumach x

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Posted in October

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This is so dreamy and

Posted on Sun, 11 Oct 2015

This is so dreamy and atmospheric, I thought maybe the character was trapped inside a dream at first (it used to happen to me and I'd think, 'why do I always come here?') Love the description of him coming round, not rushed, just right. I learned...

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Posted in My Problem with Peyote

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Really enjoyed. Jeremy has

Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015

Really enjoyed. Jeremy has grown on me ever since I took the time to hear the man speak! It's difficult to see him through all the flames - I think you nailed it.

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Posted in For the love of Jeremy Corbyn

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Some people are able to write

Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2015

Some people are able to write poems which massage the brain. This is one of them Terry. The title put me off and I didn't think I'd enjoy it but I really did. It made me salivate and my brain is refreshed, ready to see beauty in the world again...

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Posted in To Isolde, A Gift - If Only You'll Be Mine

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What a sweet tribute to your

Posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2015

What a sweet tribute to your mother, she looks lovely in the photo by the way. Recently I have been remembering lots of little things about my dad who died eight years ago, they come back to me like small subconsious gifts. Memories of your...

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Posted in I Still Miss You Terribly

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Love this - a situation joins

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2015

Love this - a situation joins up blithely into something more complete than it could have been. 

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Posted in For the Love of Her

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This is very evocative for me

Posted on Tue, 28 Apr 2015

This is very evocative for me. My dad was an Ansell's lifer, paid partly in beer tokens. I used to look down from the expressway and think how I wouldn't want to walk down there among the huge concrete pillars with that smell of HP - terrifying....

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Posted in Aston Junction

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