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I have 126 stories published in
6 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 128027 times
and 96 of my stories have been cherry picked.
My stories
Green Lights
It happens more often than I intend, that I’m walking out of Oxford down the Abingdon Road near midnight. A friend once called the walk “the most...
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- 624 reads
Cezanne on the Pennine Way
“his fortitude held and hardened because he did what he knew. His forehead like a hurled boule travelling unpainted space behind the apple and behind...
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Borrowed Time
The river seems different when everyone else is working. One spring lunchtime my wife and I found ourselves looking for something to do – our...
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Cup and Ring
“Stop the car,” I said, folding the map. “I thought we were going into Wooler,” said my wife. “I know, but stop here.” So we pulled in on a gravelled...
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- 482 reads
North Shore
On the map the causeway out to Holy Island is like an unspooled line of tracery from one of the Gospel pages produced there. Once the car joins it,...
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- 412 reads