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I have 201 stories published in 25 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 329967 times and 262 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1198 of my 4,008 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1212 votes

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Paul

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.

You can find me on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685

on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BeeRummie

at Bluesky @marandina.bsky.social

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

 

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Geisha

Geisha Where black rain once fell from laden Eastern skies, ichor now seeps at sunrise onto white mountain tops. In a land of bamboo walls, sliding...
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Three of Three)

Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/hereafter-holodog-story-part-on... Part Two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/...
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Two of Three)

Part One at https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/hereafter-holodog-story-part-on... Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Two of Three) The last...
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part One of Three)

Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part One of Three) Before the midwife had even finished making sure he was breathing, Harold Newman’s fate was sealed. He...
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Tommyknocker

Trauma can take a mind to the strangest places – real and imaginary Tommyknocker I was eight years old when I last saw Tommy. At first, I never knew...
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1198 of my comments have received 1212 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks Jacques. Let's hope

Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2024

Thanks Jacques. Let's hope 2024 is better for everyone that the last few years :)

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Posted in January Panorama

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Ah those poor bankers -

Posted on Mon, 08 Jan 2024

Ah those poor bankers - blamed for all of society's ills and yet so blameless :)

There's more than an ounce of truth in here (I know....I've worked with 'em for a lot of my career).

I once looked at a "sure-fire money spinner"...

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Posted in Make Millions in Two Minutes...

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"..and then the people

Posted on Fri, 05 Jan 2024

"..and then the people beneath the stars

who are also phantoms of sorts..."

Often the best poems come from simply observing life. There's a stillness to this, a watchful appreciation of another. There's a skill in moving that to...

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Posted in Culver

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"..we soaked, dripped,

Posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2024

"..we soaked, dripped, dropped,
seeped right into the ground
to restore
its wetness,"

A perfect circle described so beautifully. There's a deftness to this that makes the poem so readable. Just lovely, Rhiannon. Paul

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Posted in Autobiography (but not mine!)

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"Wind battering, rattling,

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

"Wind battering, rattling, howling,
thunder growling,
rain pounding, ground flooding,"

A tumultuous opening that captures a storm so well. And boy have we had some recently. They feel never ending. Maybe there are sunnier skies...

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Posted in Storm

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Ooh that's a cliffhanger

Posted on Mon, 01 Jan 2024

Ooh that's a cliffhanger ending. I like this shift to sentience that's unravelling.

"You're more human than a human".

It's a compelling read. Keep going! 

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Posted in Parcel for you....Part 11

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"I am a woman of the mist,

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

"I am a woman of the mist, myself, now,

herding red deer on the trendle,"

A mystical reverie that transends the boundaries of mere language. Words are a beautiful thing. Just wonderful. Paul

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Posted in The Witches of Long Compton

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You have captured the magic

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

You have captured the magic of Christmas Eve so well. How as young children, we would intend to stay awake and then, next thing, presents have arrived. Very lovely indeed, Rhiannon. Paul

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Posted in “This night I will …”

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That's a fascinating read,

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

That's a fascinating read, Turlough.

I guess most people end up with a cocktail of accents etc with social mobility and people moving around. I wanted to learn some Russian via the Zoom meetings I had with my son when he lived in Moscow....

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Posted in Lingo Bingo

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Thanks for reading, Jacques.

Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023

Thanks for reading, Jacques. Poe is one of my favourite writers so any mention of him in comments makes me happy. Happy New Year to you.

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Posted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris

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