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I have 221 stories published in
4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 142668 times
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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
In the Year of the Virus
We stayed indoors and watched box sets We all stayed in with family pets Twenty twenty, we won’t forget The year of the Virus. We wore our masks out...
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The Pace of Life (2010)
Where predatory consumers Live for shopping seven days a week Spend-spend-spending Until the plastic runs out Union Street ,manners have gone from...
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The Pace of Life -2020
The pace is slowing down, stopping dead And most folk shop online instead Spend-spend-spending as much as they can Forgetting the Lockdown, being...
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The One String Woman
East European woman strums one string guitar repeated discordant droning atonal hoping to improvise jam with the street noise maybe not. Avant garde...
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Unprecedented
Alan pulled the blinds back and looked down at the empty street below. Six -ten in the morning and the road outside was traffic free, not even the...
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