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I have 156 stories published in
4 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 205924 times
and 54 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 stories
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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- 836 reads
Blankets
Love is immaterial within these pitiless threads; pillow-less Discarded piles, slumped into corners on comatose Cobbles with corrosive patterns and...
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- 1465 reads
Double Helix
They chased him out of the long grass Beating him with sticks Blood running obediently Along the grain, mingled with The sting of angry rain teeming...
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- 865 reads
Cider Fruit
Round, rusty red and hanging, Mocking science, rendering Newton absurd Swinging steadily in the stillness This seed of clay, enslaving Time and...
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- 1389 reads
Black Hole
Somewhere out there, now, is a picture of A faraway place Remote, black, cold Alien Somewhere out there, now, a malevolent vacuum Swirls, crushing...
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- 912 reads