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I have 280 stories published in 28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1534654 times and 378 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1763 of my 5,439 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1819 votes

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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

My stories

Does it Rain in Heaven?

By marandina on Tue, 23 Aug 2022

Watching someone close to you leave Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/does-it-rain-in-heaven-mp3 Does it rain in Heaven? Night...

Spiritual

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Charmed (Part Two of Two)

By marandina on Sun, 14 Aug 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/charmed-part-two Part one at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/charmed-part-one-two...

Fantasy

Story

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Charmed (Part One of Two)

By marandina on Wed, 10 Aug 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/charmed-part-one Charmed (Part One of Two) The sun doesn’t shine in the London Underground; a...

Fantasy

Story

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Night Whispers

By marandina on Tue, 02 Aug 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/night-whispers-mp3 Night Whispers Clouds file across stoic skies, constellations watch aeons...

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Boris and the Curious Case of Brexit

By marandina on Wed, 27 Jul 2022

This is the tenth entry in the satirical series at https://www.abctales.com/collection/pandemic-tales-bojo-and-co Boris and the Curious Case of...

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Thanks for reading insert

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025

Thanks for reading insert (and the cherries)

This is the wip I mentioned a while ago. It's my first attempt at a novel so this is the first draft opening. I started this in April 2024. Per Drew's expert advice, I've left it so I...

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A fair analogy. So much irony

Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025

A fair analogy. So much irony in who the persecuted were in the 40s and who the persecutors are today. Learn the lessons of history. Not everyone does, it seems.

So much angst, so eloquently expressed.

One of your finest, T.

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Posted in Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table

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Thanks for reading, Jenny.

Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2025

Thanks for reading, Jenny. Maybe the poem wouldn't have been written if I had got a pic. Who knows? What I do know is that image of them gambolling up the street together will stay with me always :)

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Posted in The Fox and the Siamese

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