mcmanaman

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I have 555 stories published in 26 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 662919 times and 293 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2 of my 76 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 3 votes

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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

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Things are okay right now and hopefully it will be like this for a while

I make a note of another dinner party on the calendar on my office wall and look at the paintings
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Holding a pair of last year's trousers

“That was the day I realised” he'll tell Matthew Wright on Channel 5. An anecdote about a patio chair snapping in two.
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Some chips and a pint

he's not waiting for someone if he was he'd have checked his phone or watch or looked over his shoulder
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She'll break your heart

Nothing beats being inconsolable seeing my friends worried faces, not knowing how to deal with me. 'I've never seen him like this,' I want them to say as I am writhing on the floor, howling,
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Buying dishwasher tablets

But the thing about praying, they used to tell us at Sunday School. is that it cannot be selfish

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