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I have 552 stories published in
26 collections on the site.
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I'm John. I live in Norwich and write poems and books and for the radio. My first full poetry collection Most people aren't that happy, anyway is published by Nasty Little Press. You can take a look at it here.
My stories
Knutsford
Minibus taxis arrive with turquoise shirt-tie combinations outside the Belle Epoque where later passers-by outside will hear carefully worded...
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Disappointing Utopian Paradise
I have to admit I feel a bit let down I’ve seen much better sunsets and that wasn’t much of a lagoon. There are beautiful young tanned people...
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Envelopes
The letter you sent broke our hearts a page of A4 inside a Christmas card. When we came to visit you were gardening it’s important to make things...
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The youngest Clive
There’s a man who works in my office. He’s in charge of the post and he’s called Clive and I thought he must be the youngest Clive. Who will be the...
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And there is handholding still
My friend’s parents married three weeks after they first met on their second date he proposed she said ‘I thought you would never ask.’ Two seventeen...
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