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I have 556 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
Hope upon hope fastened to a rope
Northumberland singer-songwriters are able to articulate things the rest of us are barely capable of. In some pubs it’s impossible not to order...
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90 miles an hour is the speed I drive
Some people really like driving. In July I drove to Wales in a hire car Not for any reason, it’s just sometimes I like to drive to Wales. I like to...
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They burnt my barn and stole my horse
Some people solve their problems by burning and stealing. I solve my problems by hoping everything will be different one day. I’ve never been good at...
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Every day or nearly every day
I walk around Waterlook Park and nearly always there will be someone else walking in the opposite direction, we'll have arrived at roughly the same...
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Your hair smells of boxes
Your dog smells like toast and the new book you bought to cheer yourself up does not deserve the glowing reviews. Just because your plants are dead...
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