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I have 121 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 351058 times and 147 of my stories have been cherry picked.
27 of my 581 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 28 votes

Laurie Avadis

Hello wonderful people - my first novel - Ex was published by UnBound on the 27th August 2015. To buy it go to http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ex-Laurie-Avadis/dp/1783520876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF...

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A series of horses decreasing in size

By lavadis on Tue, 18 Feb 2025

My parents had at least three children it’s difficult to put a final number on it one of them was me the others were not My childhood was punctuated...

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A different way to measure time

By lavadis on Sat, 09 Nov 2024

When I arrived in the park, the autumn leaves had formed an auburn duvet on my usual bench. Moments after I had begun sketching tree skeletons in...

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Sea swimmer

By lavadis on Wed, 16 Oct 2024

Plunging blind into the brutal ether jagged, tangential all-consuming and caressing a cold I cannot describe swimming in the direction of emptiness...

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Muscle memory

By lavadis on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

My father never went away he just became a yesterday he told me people swing the bat he wasn't willing to do that his father taught him to be free...

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Even in peacetime no one can dream

By lavadis on Sat, 04 Feb 2023

On that day the valley was flayed raw by sunlight It was shortly after a truce had been declared between Winter and Spring Children were in the...

Surreal

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Brilliant writer gets justified accolade

Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2014

Very well deserved Richard. It ia apparent that you live in the real world with your eyes wide open and write intruitivy and instinctively about what the every day world slams into your field of vision.

Sheryl thought for a moment. ‘How...

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Compromise and friendship

Posted on Sat, 30 Aug 2025

Heartfelt and heartbreaking - whatever the middle ground is, let's scatter it with poppies and walk on it together before it becomes a battlefield

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On the subject of feet

Posted on Tue, 22 Jul 2025

As ever with your there is a beautifully light humour and eloquence to this piece. You depict an ilusive dimension between fact and fiction / pathos and sardos which would be fascinating to visit

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