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I have 155 stories published in
4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 195997 times
and 52 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Ricky Hawthorne
Three film screenplays completed and three teleplays the latter adapted from some of the short stories on site. Now half-marathon enthusiast
My collections
My stories
Clearing Up
How do you unpick a life? A Silver Spoon? A Stanley Knife? A riddle rewritten eighty times A code of unsolved Synaptic rhymes Ten pairs of pants...
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- 52 reads
Ethnic Cleansing or The Tale of the Man, the Dog, the Cat and the Mouse - A child's allegory
Part 1 Immigration On an average street Stood an average house Whose occupants Were an average mouse An average dog And an average cat Although it...
Con...text
It’s funny but I could hear Your voice in the text Like Heaney, when I’m reading his poetry But this wasn’t a poem… And I wondered why, after...
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Aureole
One day Mortality walked in and sat Beside me. We chatted. It seemed friendly and Knew me well. Then after a while it left, but Occasionally comes...
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- 540 reads
Fahrenheit 451 revisited
If this year was a book so bad You’d burn in tongues of flame Take it off the furnace And read it again
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