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I have 11 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 17980 times and 5 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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My stories

Cherry

A Thief in the Country

They keep them hidden Within those rolling hills Their dirty little things That not even the hoarding Claws of Magpies will touch
Cherry

At Eternity's Gate

In a pool Of sweat and dark memories A lone swimmer Carves out lengths On the quivering surface

Cigarette

It is the smell that takes you first, That gentle odour of dry tobacco, That whispers into the air And tiptoes into your nose,

Angels write in poetry, Demons write in prose

As I lie beneath the blanket Of a heavy Devon sky That has breached its secret contract With the local weatherman And begun to bleed
Cherry

Apollo in his cottons

His imagination was crushed to a pulp, Between the pages of a GCSE maths book, And his eyes were dug out of his face, By lines and lines of twisting jargon,

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