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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
Pride Goes Before Destruction....
The story of how pride and arrogance led to the downfall of a popular hero.
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Laying Down Roots
The strength of our roots determines our lives.
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The Night Shift
Just as the ten-six shift were about to start, the lights went out.
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- 229 reads
A Most Cynical Decision
This is the story of how a ruthless decision made by a government Minister brought about the desecration of one of our nation's finest houses.
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Platypus
A tale of how nature's strangest creature was made from leftovers.
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This brightened my day Harry.
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2026
This brightened my day Harry. The lines 'one fool even tried to mug her/but she foiled the little bugger' will forever rank alongside William McGonagall's finest!
Read full commentPosted in Hilda Doyle's Boil
Scintillating stuff marandina
Posted on Fri, 29 May 2026
Scintillating stuff marandina, not usually my genre, but I enjoyed the relentlessness of this because it's so well written. That girl needs to get the hell out of there before even weirder things happen!
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (23)
Nature never ceases to amaze
Posted on Wed, 13 May 2026
Nature never ceases to amaze Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Kleptoplasty*
Nature is her own sexton, as
Posted on Tue, 05 May 2026
Nature is her own sexton, as my grandfather used to say, but only when left alone. A poignant little piece starfish.
Read full commentPosted in The World That Was
Reading this was like
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
Reading this was like revisiting my own childhood Harry. Great stuff!
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 14 (i)
Delightful Harry, just as I
Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2026
Delightful Harry, just as I remember it way back in the day. A comforting little read.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 14 (iv)
Great stuff Harry, it brought
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
Great stuff Harry, it brought back many memories...epecially the ones that led us into Thames Station! It reminded me of the nativity plays we used to perform every year and my best mate Jed who played the wise man bringing frankincense . He only...
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 14 (ii)
Intense and purposeful
Posted on Tue, 21 Apr 2026
Intense and purposeful writing that creates real tension. Thank you.
Read full commentPosted in Ridgeline - Part Fifteen: The Reckoning
Just what we're looking
Posted on Tue, 21 Apr 2026
Just what we're looking forward to Frances, on this side of the planet. Well done.
Read full commentPosted in The Constant Birth
Thank you for your kind
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026
Thank you for your kind comment Frances, this one was setting myself a challenge and turned out to be much more difficult to achieve than I anticipated.
Read full commentPosted in Pride Before The Fall
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