mcmanaman

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I have 556 stories published in 26 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 730088 times and 294 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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

The Taxi Driver's Eyes

Julia cadged cigarettes from men as she inhaled the smoke came from their ears. She keyed her number into my phone the next day I retyped her name in...

The Cut

Pride comes before a fall and afterwards...blood. If it hadn't been for a group of passing brownies I would have been buried under the falling snow like a toddler's dad at the beach. I had a cut on my face the shape of a frown. The Brownies gave me fifteen stitches, and waited for me to regain consciousness so they could pose for a photograph to show Brown Owl and pass their first aid badge. By the time I got to your house dinner had been ruined you ate the lasagne yourself made a salad from the saut?ed potatoes to take with you to work for lunch. You said you weren't angry just worried and when you saw the stitches you brought my forehead to your lips. The pain seemed to disappear and when I looked in the mirror the cut had gone septic.

Fish Night

fish night at the Maniche
Cherry

I don't want to hate Scunthorpe

When I drive past the steelworks I put my middle finger in the air and wave it like a windscreen wiper. I don't want to hate Scunthorpe there are...

Dear Sir

Dear Sir I am writing to say how sorry I am at the way I treated you when you came round last week. I should not have used the phrase 'Over my dead...

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