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I have 221 stories published in 4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 141553 times and 74 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

They Wait

By mark p on Thu, 30 Aug 2018

Handwritten story by James Watson found within his personal effects. Transcribed for digital preservation by Jamie Watson. They Wait I watch the...
Horror
Story
Certificate 15

A Tale of Adam Maxwell- Farquhar

By mark p on Thu, 30 Aug 2018

I listened raptly to my father’s stentorian voice as he regaled me with tales from Dr James’ leather bound tome of ghost stories. I shivered at the...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

The Lost House

By mark p on Thu, 30 Aug 2018

The Lost House was an aged tenement building which loomed above a street with no name in a dilapidated area of the city. The elders of the drinking...
Story
Certificate 15

1978

By mark p on Fri, 25 Jun 2010

In the washed out pre-shrunk days of seventy eight Just after punk before we got drunk and learned to smoke On the cusp our teenage minds not yet corrupt Floyd full volume
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

The Plagiarist

By mark p on Wed, 23 Jun 2010

I plucked a fern from Dylan's hill, cut the 'H' from Ginsberg's 'Howl', nicked some lines from R McGough, regurgitated them wholesale. I robbed a phrase from Mr Hughes,
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

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