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I have 234 stories published in 4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 155943 times and 78 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Mark Pithie

Poet and Prose Writer

I have self- published  two poetry pamphlets  namely 'Back Wynd of the Mind' in 2011, and 'All Those Years Ago' in 2023.

Maybe the time is right for a new publication, maybe this year, time will tell!

My stories

Trying To Please

By mark p on Sat, 05 Jul 2025

Trying to please, what do you do, write in rhyme and metre too? It's purely a personal choice you say, but should we think of poems in this way?...
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Oldish Poet

By mark p on Sat, 28 Jun 2025

Oldish poet, stares at his laptop, scratches his head for ideas uptop, Neither Ginsberg nor McGough being himself is just enough, Balding and bearded...
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Adrift

By mark p on Fri, 27 Jun 2025

Dead-eyed, drifting, homeless rolling, Bedroll beggars and streetwise kids Buckfast couraged, words declaim Shopdoors slumped and slurring, Conflict...
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Cherry

Departure Imminent

By mark p on Fri, 27 Jun 2025

In an pub in Aberdeen Where generations drink side by side, Old men drink lager, while young women text pals, I imagine the jukebox here in the old...
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Mannie

By mark p on Fri, 27 Jun 2025

Here's that mannie again Making a big issue of nothing Superlager handed, staggering in Main Street, confessing to the rain. Breath stinks of drink...
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