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I have 225 stories published in 10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 221052 times and 60 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1 of my 14 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2 votes

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Mark Ashley

 

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Gold cherry

Valentines

Today is Valentines Day, and the shops are filled with hearts and flowers, all kinds of hearts, no end of flowers. Chocolate hearts, pizza hearts,...
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Cherry

The First Draft

Words weave and wander Through memory and imagination Crawling out from the hidden spaces Into perceived reality And laid bare with pen and paper The...

ICE terror

ICE terror Terror on the streets Men in masks with guns Terror on the streets Working for the government Murder is a dirty word That’s how they're...
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Cherry

another cold day...

sunlight, cold and bright and a crisp stab of frost On the skin lacey ice dusts the grass crawls through spider web to leaf and branch and wilted...
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Gold cherry
Poem of the week

Newport

dull drab drenched slick slate cobble beneath church tower shadow with dark green fringe and little red berries poisoned podules in the rain. muddy...
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1 of my comments has received 2 Great Feedback votes

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agreed... this was written

Posted on Fri, 09 Jan 2026

agreed... this was written very much out of anger, written to be a song mainly, but the words are here...' for what it is worth...

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Posted in ICE terror