marandina
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I have 275 stories published in
28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1340231 times
and 372 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1718 of my 5,329 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1762 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
Dreams of Halloween
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Samhain and Beyond
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Strangers on a Street
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Giant Redwoods
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Autumn
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That's a wonderful poem as
Posted on Thu, 03 Oct 2024
That's a wonderful poem as the introduction.
As always, a beautifully crafted travelogue laced with humour. You bring the sites, sights and sounds to life so evocatively.
I stayed at Hersonissus years ago and loved Crete. It's a...
Read full commentPosted in The Old Man and the Libyan Sea
Another wonderful nature poem
Posted on Mon, 30 Sep 2024
Another wonderful nature poem, Jenny. Almost Gothic (which I love).
The last stanza is ethereal and...well...perfect.
Read full commentPosted in Visions Carried On The Wind
Nicely done, Ed. You capture
Posted on Mon, 30 Sep 2024
Nicely done, Ed. You capture the mythology of Egypt adeptly and vividly. Enjoyed this.
Read full commentPosted in KHEPRI
Vanessa entering her daughter
Posted on Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Vanessa entering her daughter's bedroom resonated with me. I wandered about like a lost lamb in a similar fashion when my little girl went to Uni. I like the half-hearted attempt to make the room look neater.
Spencer's literal...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you...Part 35
"...the foamy pond of their
Posted on Thu, 19 Sep 2024
"...the foamy pond of their comrades.
Their tumid insides screaming..."
That's a deep introspection of how little boys are. Some wonderful lines, imagery and metaphor. Perhaps the most depraved is a wolf. Just maybe.
Enjoyed...
Read full commentPosted in How boys play
Thank you for referencing one
Posted on Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Thank you for referencing one of my favourites authors. I read quite a bit of RLS when I was younger.
There's a beautiful flow to this matching the theme with interesting questions asked that we often think but rarely articulate.
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Read full commentPosted in Visible signs of the invisible
"..delicious blackberry and
Posted on Tue, 17 Sep 2024
"..delicious blackberry and apple crumble
for Sunday lunch!"
From tree to plate - a journey documented so well and so elegantly. My mouth was watering by the end and those photos are yummy.
Adriotly penned, Rhiannon :)
Read full commentPosted in Delicious harvest
"There is an earthy romance
Posted on Tue, 17 Sep 2024
"There is an earthy romance of song in early autumn’s golden hour.."
What a wonderful opening line. Blends beautifully into a haunting tale. The poem lingers long after being read. Immaculate, Lena.
Read full commentPosted in M'Appari
"… What’s a “holiday”?’"
Posted on Fri, 20 Sep 2024
"… What’s a “holiday”?’"
Oof...that's a powerful last line leaving all kinds of issues in the reader's mind. Of course, we often take holidays for granted but many don't get them for lots of reasons. Maybe it's the child's first holiday....
Read full commentPosted in ‘What’s up??’
That's an interesting analogy
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
That's an interesting analogy - slaying the far-right dragon. Maybe although we tend to over simplify with labels and terms. Social unrest only really goes away when the root cause for the issues are resolved or at least seen to be given time and...
Read full commentPosted in The New King Arthur Slays His First Dragon! By Alfred N.Muggins
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