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I have 240 stories published in
28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1032596 times
and 323 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1558 of my 4,883 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1579 votes
I am a Brummie living in North Somerset who loves to write but gets distracted with other things. I enjoy horror/fantasy and anything that provokes original thought.
My literary heroes are Clive Barker, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft.
Everyone should read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four .
I have work published by AlienBuddha Press, Loft Books, BlackBough Poems, DarkWinter Literary Magazine and Paragraph Planet.
You can find me on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685
on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BeeRummie
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beerummie/
at Bluesky @marandina.bsky.social
and at Threads https://www.threads.net/@beerummie
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Why does it always rain in graveyards?
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (8)
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The Boy with the Rubik’s Cube
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (7)
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Prophesy - The Immortal Witch (6)
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Something that’s bothered me
Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2025
Something that’s bothered me for years. Ah...a long running mystery finally solved.
This hilarious piece is today's Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.
I have added a pic to promote your work on social media. Just let...
Read full commentPosted in Taking a Dalek up the stairs
I know nothing at all about
Posted on Wed, 28 Apr 2021
I know nothing at all about Tarkovsky. (I thought he was a right back for Everton) Super poem that makes me wanna look Tarkovsky's work up.
Read full commentPosted in Conversations About Tarkovsky in a Copenhagen Restaurant
With Remembrance Day on the
Posted on Wed, 05 Nov 2025
With Remembrance Day on the horizon, this layered poem is poignant and very relevant.
It is today’s Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.
Congratulations, Ewan.
Read full commentPosted in Put The Sword Down
This is definitely 'quite
Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2025
This is definitely 'quite bonkers and entertaining'.
There's so much creativity in this piece and it's a genre I adore.
This is today's Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.
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Read full commentPosted in The UFO Bible 1
I remember reading seashore's
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
I remember reading seashore's stuff when I returned to the site in 2020. It was visceral, honest and striking. It certainly made me sit up and take notice. I imagine she was a one-off. Coral made quite a mark during her lifetime.
A moving...
Read full commentPosted in Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral
This charming tale of
Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2025
This charming tale of childhood imagination is today's Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.
Congratulations.
Read full commentPosted in Dobe Island; My Place in the Sun
Most of us have been there
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2024
Most of us have been there but how many have made it back intact?
This wonderful piece is today's Facebook and X/Twitter Pick of the Day.
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Read full commentPosted in Linkedin Island
"Contentment is precious, at
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024
"Contentment is precious, at peace, with ‘enough’"
We live in a capitalist society where advertisments everywhere are designed to make you feel inadequate. It takes a long time to work out what's important. 'Having enough' is a great place...
Read full commentPosted in Never Enough?
"...an acknowledged war hero
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
"...an acknowledged war hero and a humble witness all over the world, to the Saviour..."
A fine tribute to somebody I wasn't familiar with it until I read your poem. I looked up her details via the power of Google. It made very interesting...
Read full commentPosted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom
"A billion trillion raindrops
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
"A billion trillion raindrops cling, shimmering to dark grey tracery of beech twigs, each tipped in a fine fawn point, holding the plans for a furl of zingy green to emerge in April and set the woods afizz."
I was right there with you in...
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
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