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I have 280 stories published in
28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1551465 times
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1767 of my 5,455 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1823 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
Florida (1987)
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The Enchantress of Avalon (Part Two of Two)
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The Enchantress of Avalon (Part One of Two)
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The Wishing Tree (of Glastonbury Tor)
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Fading of Legends
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Ha..I haven't thought about
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
Ha..I haven't thought about it in years but I burned all my school books too. In my back garden after the final day.
School days were bittersweet for most of us with good times and bad. I'm glad you were candid in your account as it makes...
Read full commentPosted in School Reunion
That's a poignant vignette
Posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2025
That's a poignant vignette and, I imagine, of particular significance just now. Yes, hope springs eternal and in places you least expect :)
Read full commentPosted in "Fragile"
You can sense the tension
Posted on Fri, 31 Jan 2025
You can sense the tension which is a testimony to how this is written. The combination of racing thoughts and constant seeking.
Spencer's wandered off without his tablets....like we all do sometimes. Well I do, anyway :)
Looking...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 50
I can feel the gusts of fresh
Posted on Tue, 04 Feb 2025
I can feel the gusts of fresh breeze in my lungs.
Another wonderful ramble with you, Rhiannon. More gorgeous pics, too!
[Think there's a typo in that final line? "...as drawr back to the carpark.]
Read full commentPosted in Bringsty Common, again
Another high octane piece.
Posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2025
Another high octane piece.
You write at such a breathless pace. If that's how you work then you must be exhauasted after a tour of duty.
Definitely an urban poetry feel to it and I can absolutely picture this as performance poetry...
Read full commentPosted in Alive N‘ 25*
"...yet still I'm
Posted on Sun, 02 Feb 2025
"...yet still I'm
haunted by past voices that
consume.."
That's a reflective piece, Jenny. I sometimes think it's easier to look forward than backwards. There's no ghosts to deal with when you look ahead. Of course, they are...
Read full commentPosted in Like Autumn Leaves Scatter In The Breeze
It's a busy agenda isn't it?
Posted on Mon, 03 Feb 2025
It's a busy agenda isn't it? So many lands to conquer. MAGA MEGA etc
Alfred asks the questions and we ponder the answers. Thought provoking, of course.
Read full commentPosted in Trump’s Inauguration Hot Air Balloon! By Alfred N.Muggins
The strange thing about Trump
Posted on Wed, 29 Jan 2025
The strange thing about Trump's reelection (at least for me) is him surviving assassination attemps. I honestly think that lots of people genuinely believe that it was divine intervention and crystalised his gains following the woeful display of...
Read full commentPosted in The Great Pretender! By Alfred N Muggins
That's an absorbing poem,
Posted on Mon, 27 Jan 2025
That's an absorbing poem, Rhiannon.
I am off to do some research as this is just my kind of thing.
Nicely done :)
Read full commentPosted in Pluto, small, far – very old?
'It says here that they are
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025
'It says here that they are plugging themselves into electric car chargers to get high.’
That's quite an image to finish with! Ooh...feral robots. This is an interesting turn of events.
Looking forward to the road trip to find...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 49
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