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I have 266 stories published in 28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1272209 times and 358 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1675 of my 5,206 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1712 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

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

Haunted

By marandina on Sun, 18 Oct 2020

It had been 18 months. The world had moved on. Life was engulfed by a pandemic; individual tragedies subsumed by a crisis. The searchlight of...
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Certificate PG

Our Christmas Animal House

By marandina on Sun, 17 Dec 2006

It was before the Feast of Stephen that I first recall, The copious snow that lay all around my house, T'was that Yuletide warmth that came so tall, When I would throw open my wreath festooned doors to a mouse.
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

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

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1675 of my comments have received 1712 Great Feedback votes

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"...grape hyacinth’s blue

Posted on Mon, 18 Mar 2024

"...grape hyacinth’s blue bubbles
burst up from their sleep..."

Such a sweep of colours and celebration. I think it's spring equinox today. Finally...surely....warmer days and lighter nights. I think we are due after all the rain....

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Posted in Colourful Chorus!

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Reading out loud is a big

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Reading out loud is a big deal so well done for navigating the adrenaline-fuelled terror and euphoria that goes with events like that. Yeah...I'd love to listen if you do a recording. I haven't put anything onto SoundCloud for a while but it is a...

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Posted in More n'24

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"He drove her to a quiet

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

"He drove her to a quiet place.

And in the land of guns of course he had one too.

He took it out and in the seamlessness of time.."

 

That is a tragic tale, Jane. An elegiac tribute that is sad to read but so...

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Posted in Sparkly Little Paula

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Thanks for reading, T. Yes,

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Thanks for reading, T. Yes, that was the factory I was thinking of when I read your poem a while back. It was a bit weird that so many people commented on strange smells from factories in the past in your comments thread (including me). The...

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Posted in Falling

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"..deep caves beneath

Posted on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

"..deep caves beneath capacious

gorges pensively wait to be

explored.."

Such rich and evocative imagery. A lovely tribute to Mother nature, Jenny. Paul

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Posted in Inspired By Mother Nature

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"...some sort of cyber spouse

Posted on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

"...some sort of cyber spouse kennel.." Made me laugh.

You have captured today's post-university generation in that sharply drawn profile of Annie. As always, lots of understated and clever humour that works so well.

Part 21. Wow!...

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 21

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Nicely done. Very credible

Posted on Sat, 09 Mar 2024

Nicely done. Very credible interaction and, as always, you get inside the thoughts and feelings of your characters so deftly.

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Posted in Keep the perspective

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"...random twinkles

Posted on Sun, 10 Mar 2024

"...random twinkles

imitating firefly's magic.."

I hear that orchestra of nature laughing. A charming, liliting, beguiling poem for the season.

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Posted in "Good Morning"

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"...they will continue to

Posted on Tue, 05 Mar 2024

"...they will continue to grow and march

across raped surfaces until all signs of

humanity’s absurdity are masked forever."

Made me think of the apocalypic series like "The Last of Us" and "Alice in Borderland". Both have...

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Posted in Blind Faith

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"But with hush intent,

Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2024

"But with hush intent,

Stirring drowsy winter's soil."

 

That's an evocative vignette, Jenny.

 

So happy to see you writing regularly again. Paul :)

 

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Posted in Rousing Spring

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