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Tom Emery
Now retired from a career in teaching, I live in Scarborough, where I spend my days reading, writing, travelling and playing the piano, but not necesserily in that order.
My stories
Hiding In The Wendy House
When the Wendy House becomes a sanctuary...
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Shipwreck Green
*/ This poem is an ekphrastic description of Turner's wonderful painting 'The Shipwreck' which I once gazed at for a very long time in the Tate Gallery, marvelling at the depths of the colour green he had created to depict a violent sea swallowing up broken ships and desperate men.
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A Day Out With Dad
Toby asked his dad if he could go with him in the van.....
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30th July 1966
A tale based around a real event on a day when other things were happening.
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Passwords
A tale of how losing a password can be devastating.
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Very competently done a.j.w.
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
Very competently done w.w.j Your contribution really picks up the pace and makes great progress.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 8.
You're using a northern
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026
You're using a northern English dialect SoulFire, most commonly a Yorkshire dialect. Nowt and summat are perfectly acceptable to we Yorkshire folk if you're setting your piece 'up north'. I enjoyed reading it, and your long sentence...
Read full commentPosted in §tandby - The Light
Wonderful stuff Harry, I was
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026
Wonderful stuff Harry, I was with you every step of the way. I remember similar instances of being ridiculed in front of a class by a sadistic teacher. It was traumatising and it's very evident from your writing that it left you scarred too....
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 17 (i)
This is great writing
Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2026
This is great writing SoulFire, and instructional too. Skateboards were way after my time and apparently a whole new world of teenage angst!
Read full commentPosted in The Less Miserables Break a Board (1)
Very nicely done marandina,
Posted on Fri, 19 Jun 2026
Very nicely done marandina, a gentle picture of suburban nature on our doorsteps.
Read full commentPosted in A Cat-Proof Fence
Thank you Harry, that's very
Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2026
Thank you Harry, that's very kind of you. I spent three days crafting this one, but sometimes we have to acknowledge the old parable.....and some fell upon stoney ground!
Read full commentPosted in Shipwreck Green
An interesting read Angus, on
Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2026
An interesting read Angus, on the strange habits of one of our nation's genuine fruitcakes. There's always a ready audience for someone like Crowley.
Read full commentPosted in Aleister Crowley in Torquay, 1941
It was indeed insert,
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026
It was indeed insert, especially as he would have had to replace the loss from his own pocket and five bob back then was quite a substantial sum. He had a very generous nature and always gave a lot of a dad's most precious commodity, his time.
Read full commentPosted in A Day Out With Dad
Hello Ray. This is intriguing
Posted on Wed, 10 Jun 2026
Hello Ray. This is intriguing work in a genre that I wouldn't normally turn to, but you write very fluently and with great imagination and it carries the reader along with real conviction.
Read full commentPosted in Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (9)
Written in mesmerising,
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2026
Written in mesmerising, measured tempo monotone. A distinctive signature. Excellent.
Read full commentPosted in Heel - § 1: The After
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