mcmanaman

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I have 552 stories published in 26 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 642782 times and 290 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2 of my 75 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

Cherry

Let's not go to work this morning

put our backpacks on both shoulders
Cherry

It's hard to imagine any of our friends will die

there is no time for asthma attacks or carbon monoxide poisoning, motorway pile ups or complications during minor surgery
Cherry

We used to take drugs together

you say 'I bet all of our primary school teachers are dead by now' I think back to Mr Holland and Mrs Phillips and realise you're probaby right.
Poem of the week

Sometimes when I think about you it makes me feel a bit sick

the lady in Barnados beamed such a smile when I came in with a bin bag under each arm.

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