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I have 36 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 36890 times and 28 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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How To Walk On Water

It was April in June; spring's very own month of non-stop decadence two months overdue. All of the trees, and all of the tangled roots and shoots below them, were erupting in a lusty chorus of wind-tickled new growth, the tick-tock of dandelion clocks and (if you listened carefully) the provocative ripening of stickybuds...

Whispers in a heatwave

I have fallen she whispered; Stumbled across dusty ground, Half full of heart-beats that last forever, Sick with my own silent lung-shreiks and their stiff, metallic fear and the strange black-hole tug at my sinews. Crumbling, she choked, I have held my breath, Waiting gravel-grazed and stunned for a sunbeam to dance over my cheek.

Here I have fallen

Inky black above its blotted angels spit and curse; a heavy sky On the field around us barren landscape drips, drags Soggy steps Lines of black and...

Notions of

for Trois Gymniopedies and sweet sweet smoke

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For first adventures

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