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I have 262 stories published in 28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1235932 times and 353 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1646 of my 5,141 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1683 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

Happy Valentines

I always did love Sadie. We were your typical childhood sweethearts who grew up and eventually got married. It was aged 12 when we shared a naive...
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Mehtab Bagh (Moonlight Garden)

We met on the mezzanine, lobby of splendour and gold, our bearded, mystic Hindu guide, spirited tourists into seats. Passed meandering, sacred cows,...

The Theory of Everything (take 2)

I originally posted this piece a few days ago. I had this half-arsed notion that I needed to put something up on my birthday and a rare foray to...
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Gold cherry

A Secret Forest

We landed at Marco Polo, Azzurri gateway to the North, clutching passports we passed bleary-eyed through mundane border checks, as luggage rolled...
Cherry

Wootton Village

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/wootton-village-mp3 Slate-coloured, sombre skies cast vacuous, apocryphal runes. Carrion crows...

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1646 of my comments have received 1683 Great Feedback votes

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"Sea mist over the sea and

Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024

"Sea mist over the sea and distant cliffs,
walk the cliff path awhile.
Down into a cove, see a couple of oyster catchers with their red legs
near the surf.."

That sounds like an amazing walk full of wonderful sights. I...

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Posted in East from Cwm-yr-Eglwys

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I coiuld hear you reading

Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024

I could hear you reading this in my head, Ewan. Definitely one for audio. Seems so extraordinary and ridiculous calling an election in July when there's such a gulf in the polls. It's almost like giving up. Who knows? Count Binface is running...

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Posted in Empty M_______o

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"Let each pretty leafy glade

Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024

"Let each pretty leafy glade and

flowing brook give sparkling

eyes a sense of genuine wonder.."

Lovely photo, wonderful sentiments.

I was right there with you on that path, Jenny :)

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Posted in State Of Bliss

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"For fourteen years I endured

Posted on Sun, 19 May 2024

"For fourteen years I endured schools, but not nuns." Just finished watching Bodkin on Netflix set in Ireland. As ever, nuns gets a strange portrayal. They rarely get a good write-up taken even further by the likes of Father Ted.

Living in...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage

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That's a clever premise. It

Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024

That's a clever premise. It works standalone and can be continued. Nicely done, Penny :)

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Posted in "Book of All Answers"

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"He won’t like it, he might

Posted on Fri, 17 May 2024

"He won’t like it, he might pee on Spencer.’" Well, yes...that could happen. That made me laugh.

The drama continues and you work conflicting emotions well.

That's a controversial ending. Hmmm....a slave.

Looking forward to...

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Posted in Parcel for you..Part 26

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"..the tiniest size

Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024

"..the tiniest size
and wonky,
misshapen.."

So much drama in so few words, Rhiannon. And a positive finale in let's plant something else instead. The rollercoaster emotions of gardening. Enjoyed :)

 

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Posted in The tentative gardener

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Wonderful storytelling.

Posted on Sat, 11 May 2024

Wonderful storytelling.

This is our Facebook and X/Twitter Pick of the Day.

Congratulations!

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Posted in How inscrutable his ways

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“This is my spot

Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024

“This is my spot
the place I’ve got
a space that is not
for the doing
and the toing and froing.."

A special spot is a wondrous thing.

You capture one so evocatively, Rhiannon.

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Posted in Time-out Spot

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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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Posted in Waterfall

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