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I have 259 stories published in 28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1214721 times and 349 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1627 of my 5,064 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1664 votes

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Paul

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

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at Bluesky @marandina.bsky.social

and at Threads https://www.threads.net/@beerummie

 

My stories

Ashes To Ashes

By marandina on Mon, 03 Apr 2006

It was dark in the beginning; a neutrino sat suspended in a vast array of nothingness. All things of real matter were frozen in an inanimate void of space and time. It was impossible to explain this vacuum -'it simply was
Spiritual
Story
Certificate PG

At the Going Down of The Sun

By marandina on Wed, 15 Feb 2006

A poem about a life
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate PG

Private Heaven

By marandina on Fri, 03 Feb 2006

Memnock had waited for a thousand years. At least, he thought it was a thousand years but it could have been much longer than that; he didn't wear a watch after all.
Humour
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

Chinese Whispers

By marandina on Sun, 22 Jan 2006

I guess there was no way of knowing that things would turn out like this. As I stood and stared out across the moonlit, mountain vista, I reflected back on what had led up to this moment. When you're a mile high in the sky the air seems so much clearer and your thoughts become crystallised like a moth caught in an arctic freeze.
Spiritual
Story
Certificate U

A Working Complaint

By marandina on Sun, 15 Jan 2006

It's been a hard day's night, And I've been working like a dog,
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

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1627 of my comments have received 1664 Great Feedback votes

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All caught up again. Yes, I

Posted on Thu, 25 Jan 2024

All caught up again. Yes, I was captivated by the image of all those Hillman Hunters running around Iran. And the reputation of dirty Leeds stretches far and wide!

 

Your memory for detail is staggering. It shines through in these...

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Posted in Just Deserts

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Cheers, T. If anyone else

Posted on Thu, 25 Jan 2024

Cheers, T. If anyone else talked about reading it at 3am I wouldn't take them seriously. With you, on the other hand.. 

 

Appreciate the read and comment. Will catch up with your Iran story soon. 

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Posted in Silent Mystic

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There's that lovely rhythm

Posted on Thu, 25 Jan 2024

There's that lovely rhythm again. I like the way this flows, Rhiannon. Nicely done, as ever. Paul

[Is that intentional the way the title is spelt?]

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Posted in 'A bump of originality'*

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"..Stu looked up, he removed

Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2024

"..Stu looked up, he removed his napkin from his lap, folded it and placed it on the table as if he’d suddenly been challenged to a duel...."

All caught up again. The exchanges around the dinner table are well done. You are inside the...

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Posted in Parcel for you..Part 16

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"It was a star falling out of

Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2024

"It was a star falling out of the sky with comets trailing behind it. Sputniks went off course and experienced gravitational wobbles. The QE2’s sister ship ran aground in Damuir Canal. An invasion of big boats and ocean liners were likewise...

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Posted in Sweaty

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"..was left quite literally

Posted on Mon, 22 Jan 2024

"..was left quite literally high and dry
up the mountain road on a dead-end track."

There's a lot of drama in such a short poem, Rhiannon. We do get so attached to our cars, don't we? I enjoyed the ride and was glad of a happy ending...

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Posted in What happened, little car?

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".. a cloud-bellied

Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2024

".. a cloud-bellied necromancer..."

 

Such wonderful use of language in evoking a unique atmosphere to celebrate a "pie". Gorgeous. 

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Well I've been to Inverness

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Well I've been to Inverness so that makes me a third of a real traveller, I guess.

On my tour across the Golden Triangle in India, it was invariably air-conditioned coach excursions each day. There was a young couple with expensive cameras...

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Posted in Only Here for The Poets

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Breathless, dramatic and cool

Posted on Thu, 18 Jan 2024

Breathless, dramatic and cool. Of course.

"As they say, shit roles downhill…" I had a boss that used to use this phrase all the time. It was always a coded warning to make sure you perform. Nice guy..

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Posted in Rescues of Holy Waters

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Well I've read all 3 parts

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Well I've read all 3 parts now. Your lilting style and wry humour makes it an effortless reading journey. You make the point that we make assumptions about people and places (almost certainly based on the images we see in the media). My lad...

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Posted in Lovely Palace, Must Fly

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