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I have 268 stories published in
28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1283893 times
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1680 of my 5,224 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1717 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.
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My stories
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
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Colours of Christmas
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A Murder of Crows (Transcendence)
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Those We Leave Behind
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Eastern Sky
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The USA - the land of
Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2025
The USA - the land of conspiracy theories. I don't suppose we'll ever get to the truth of a lot of things. Whilst Alfred could lay low, I suspect the lure of investigative roving reporting will be too strong for him!
Read full commentPosted in Is America Coming Here? (Sleepwalkers?) by rogue reporter Alfred N.Muggins
An enigma posed adriotly.
Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025
An enigma posed adriotly.
I don't know the answer but I'm sure someone will be along shortly to solve it.
Nicely done, Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Who am I?
You often explore the dark
Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2025
You often explore the dark underbelly of the corporate jungle with insight and cynicism, Mark. The fragments you describe are familiar especially the verbal waterboarding that goes on around missed sales targets and weak pipelines.
[Where...
Read full commentPosted in Kettle Violation
Ah yes...children will make
Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2025
Ah yes...children will make games out of anything.
That's a lovely, warm story told in poetic form.
Charming and engaging, Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Appropriate!
All caught up.
Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2025
All caught up.
Alternate universes/the multi-verse. My favourite theories but I could be off-beam. I often am :)
It's an intriguing premise. "Through The Goo-Hole".
Read full commentPosted in Beige Goo Splat - (part 2)
Memories are all we are left
Posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2025
Memories are all we are left with when loved ones leave us. In that way they live on.
I enjoyed this reminiscence, especially the bit about W-s-M.
Thank you for sharing this, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Letter Going Beyond The Grave
"Their hands cannot reach
Posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2025
"Their hands cannot reach around the world."
Where's there's life, there's hope. And ragu an apt metaphor.
Imagistic and profound. Adriotly done, Lena.
Read full commentPosted in Seasoned
"He had lost count of how
Posted on Mon, 08 Sep 2025
"He had lost count of how many tables had gone to their after life thanks to the continual and frequent machinations of his wife Mrs Muggins, a lady most obsessed with tables"
I'm with Insert - what's going on with those tables?! :)
Read full commentPosted in Birthday Blues by Alfred Muggins
‘I’m off now, meeting my bird
Posted on Tue, 02 Sep 2025
‘I’m off now, meeting my bird,’ Eesh...I remember saying stuff like that once.
Yes, I like the idea of a doggy guardian of the lift. I can just imagine that.
Looking forward to reading the next part already.
Read full commentPosted in The Vale - Chapter 7
Supply chains are inter
Posted on Sun, 31 Aug 2025
Supply chains are inter-connected and often span the Globe. The Law of Unintended Consequences very much in play when applying artifical changes to an established economic model. Trump's tariffs have been declared illegal again in court. What a...
Read full commentPosted in The Archmoron Himself by Alfred N.Muggins
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