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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.
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My stories
Falling
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The Golden Fleece (Part Two of Two)
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The Golden Fleece (Part One of Two)
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After Russian Rain (A Postscript from Moscow)
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After the Snow
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I'll have a look, Di.
Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025
I'll have a look, Di.
"It was fine mum.." is a reply to "How was the trip?"
I've now italicised semi-wilderness as a signpost so the reference is clearer.
The cottage is based on a real property on Brean Beach which...
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (3)
"Can you die inside a dream?
Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025
"Can you die inside a dream?
And will you be found
inside the layers of a tiger’s bite?"
Supposedly you can. Best not to test the theory.
That's a miasma of thoughts and feelings captured within the lines of this poem...
Read full commentPosted in I Dreamt of Tigers
It's best not to let
Posted on Fri, 11 Jul 2025
It's best not to let Trumpenstein get to you/Alfred. He's a clown masqerading as the US President. He's now threatening Putin with tariffs if no peace deal is reached with Ukraine within 50 days. Of course, the Ruskies just laugh at DT's rhetoric...
Read full commentPosted in The Queen of Canada Takes Alfred Muggins’ Mind Away From Trumpenstein’s Coup by Alfred Muggins
"...a yearning leaves upon
Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025
"...a yearning leaves upon your face
to be out there by weather tossed."
What a beautiful poem and very much written in a classical way.
So skilfully done, Rhiannon. I enjoyed this one, in particular.
Read full commentPosted in Daffodil
The style of the poem made me
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025
The style of the poem made me think of Kipling [Echoes of "If" even with the serious subject explored here].
A very skilfully executed piece of work.
Read full commentPosted in Fifty Shades of Death
Ah...we remember them all.
Posted on Sun, 06 Jul 2025
Ah...we remember them all. Quite poignant reading this on the 7th birthday of my beloved ginger toms - Travis & Perkins. A lovely read. Thanks for sharing the memory, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Tibbs Out On The Tiles
Let's hope a better America
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025
Let's hope a better America emerges from its current mess. Sadly, his term in office has a way to go yet. Who knows where will all be when the Trumpmeister is finally done.
Good on Alfred Muggins for contiuing to call out the Orange...
Read full commentPosted in Chronicles Of Trumpenstein : The Progress Of The Trumplings by Alfred N.Muggins, Armchair Reporter
That's a powerful lamentation
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
That's a powerful lamentation and an apt metaphor.
Grieving for an animal is tough. I think it's because they are so vulnerable and dependant on us. There's a feeling of inevitable guilt that comes with everything else.
A...
Read full commentPosted in This Sad Blister
It reads like an elegy. I
Posted on Sun, 29 Jun 2025
It reads like an elegy. I imagine after living a life like that, time was called sometime in the past.
You bring him to life in a warm, relatable way. Definitely an empathetic account despite his flaws.
[Yes, the Scots of Glasgow do...
Read full commentPosted in Those Shameful Blue Pyjamas
Thanks for reading, T.
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025
Thanks for reading, T.
Service stations off motorways are really black holes that people disappear through and return from when it's time to resume their journey.
Would I lie about this? (Well...yes...probably)
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