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I have 202 stories published in
25 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 340856 times
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1211 of my 4,036 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1225 votes
I am a Brummie living in Northampton 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
Devil's Advocate (Part Two of Three)
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Devil's Advocate
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Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two of Two)
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Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)
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North of Taiga
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Not sure I ever had to endure
Posted on Mon, 19 Feb 2024
Not sure I ever had to endure an appraisal by Zoom (thankfully). I imagine they are de rigeur these days. Made me shudder hearing/reading the corporate stuff, though. I imagine you are drawing from first hand experience to get it so accurate/...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you...Part 19
Plutin, Putinpot and Putin -
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024
Plutin, Putinpot and Putin - all names for the Russian horned devil. Always good to read another Muggins take on Mother Russia. I am sure that, when the time comes, Saint Peter will turn the despot away and have him duly arrested. The whole...
Read full commentPosted in Pearly Gates : A Tour of Russia’s Hell by Alfred N.Muggins Part 1
Catharsis is a common reason
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024
Catharsis is a common reason for writing. It's what brought me back to creative writing a few years ago. Maybe the gun is a metaphor, maybe it's real. Some pain never goes away and it becomes a question of finding an outlet for it along with...
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"..rivulets flowed down from
Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2024
"..rivulets flowed down from high,
thrill of an early primrose,
daffodil leaves
and seas of snowdrops on banks.."
I love the way you take everything in when on your walks, Rhiannon. You have an eye for nature and beauty...
Read full commentPosted in Up on the Mortimer Trail
"A billion trillion raindrops
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
"A billion trillion raindrops cling, shimmering to dark grey tracery of beech twigs, each tipped in a fine fawn point, holding the plans for a furl of zingy green to emerge in April and set the woods afizz."
I was right there with you in...
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Oh yes - nicely done. The
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
Oh yes - nicely done. The note disappearing works really well.
Read full commentPosted in "Life is but a Dream"
Well written and conceived,
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
Well written and conceived, Penny. Just a thought but how would a hologram leave a handwritten note? I'm sure there's a coherent explanation in this twilight world of sci fi you have conjured.
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We use plastic heat pads that
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
We use plastic heat pads that get warmed in the microwave. When they fall out of bed they make a banging noise as they hit the floor. There's nothing more comfy than taking a hot water bottle or something similar with you at night. I could relate...
Read full commentPosted in Feeling to find it
Thanks for reading, Jacques.
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Thanks for reading, Jacques. '1984' is my favourite book. Everyone should read it.
Read full commentPosted in After Russian Rain (A Postscript from Moscow)
Thanks a nice thing to say,
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Thanks a nice thing to say, Di. I am very proud of both of my kids. James has a wandering soul. I can picture him living abroad again soon.
Yes, my Russian and Italian are both shocking. Then again so is my English. Well... I am a Brummie...
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