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I have 242 stories published in 28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1080266 times and 326 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1568 of my 4,924 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1589 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

Cherry

Cherry Tree

Dedicated to the cherry tree in my front garden. It brings me much joy. Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/cherry-tree-mp3 In the...
Gold cherry

Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)

This is a tribute to Roy Batty played by the late Rutger Hauer from one of my favourite movies - Blade Runner (1982) https://bladerunner.fandom.com/...
Cherry

The Sure Yank Redemption

This is a sequel to: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/most-vial The jet plane roared as it penetrated trans-Atlantic airspace. The ocean rose...
Cherry

The Last Elephant

Forged in bucolic harmonies, an interdependence born of millennia, a symbiosis of flora and fauna, when humanity lived as one, in a world of...
Cherry

Footsteps on Mars

In the dead of an iridescent moonlit night, in an amphitheatre of curious crickets, chirping in the rattling reed bush, I am camped under a haven of...
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1568 of my comments have received 1589 Great Feedback votes

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"...hearing

Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024

"...hearing

white noise drift over craggy

rocks.."

Ah waterfalls....magical creations of nature.

I enjoyed your reminiscence, Jenny :)

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Meeting all three of my kids

Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024

Meeting all three of my kids at the airport at noon was altogether magnificent - that must have been emotional after such a long enforced break due to the Pandemic

Listening to Romanian Jazz on Spotify - I think I could so with some Johnny...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage

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"Rumbling sounds of oceans'

Posted on Thu, 09 May 2024

"Rumbling sounds of oceans' surge and flow.."

 

Gorgeous images, beautiful photos. Felt like I was right there. An evocative, lovely poem, Rhiannon:)

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Posted in Shores ever changing, new, fresh

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Dreams can be wonderful

Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024

Dreams can be wonderful things and spirit us away to another place and time. I really enjoyed this.

It's our Facebook and X/Twitter Pick of the Day. Congratulations, Jenny.

I have added a picture of the fabulous Clifton Suspension...

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Posted in Complex Dream

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Kashmir and the Clifton

Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024

Kashmir and the Clifton Suspension Bridge in the same dream. Sounds like your subconscious is encouraging you to go on a journey. Dreams are always fascinating to capture so well done for turning yours into an intriguing one :)

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Posted in Complex Dream

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"Aladdin Sane and Hunky Dory

Posted on Thu, 02 May 2024

"Aladdin Sane and Hunky Dory

Bowie’s works in all their glory.."

A pensive, thoughtful poem. Speculative is good. Makes us all think so nicely done, Turlough.

I like the sound of ninety-nine inch TV screens. The footie would...

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Posted in Turn and Face the Strange

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"..drooping bells to charm

Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2024

"..drooping bells to charm not chime.."
A poem full of colours and images, Rhiannon. And beautiful pics too :)

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Posted in Columbine

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"She fantasised about tying

Posted on Fri, 26 Apr 2024

"She fantasised about tying Colin Davenport to a chair for a month and making him watch while the company didn’t go into meltdown.."

Poor old Colin Davenport. I think we've all fantasized about torturing someone with a diet of...

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 24

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"Arboreal creatures grasp

Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024

"Arboreal creatures grasp secret

triggers to be unlocked.."

Different circumstances, I know, but your poem made me think of the missing Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall. Trees make the world a better place so the thought of...

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Posted in Connecting With Trees

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"..And places where the cat

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

"..And places where the cat has been

Some uses considered quite obscene..."

That line made me laugh.

Poor old Muller Lite lambasted like that. Still...your local alternative does sound yummy. A rapping, rhythmic, humourous...

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Posted in Lactobacillus Bulgaricus or Bust!

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