MistakenMagic
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 657991 times
and 103 of my stories have been cherry picked.
3 of my 3,053 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 3 votes
My stories
Reading at the Lowe Library
Here, the sunset hangs like strips of ripened honeycomb, dripping fire onto the sill.
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Miles to Go Before I Sleep
Written on a platform at Durham train station, 21/01/11. I don't ever want to feel like this again.
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We're All Mad Here
There's a girl at the table to my right, curled up in her chair and retreating into a bottle-green hoody like a snail. She must be at least my age, yet she's clutching a soft toy penguin.
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Hide and Seek
"In a daze of lavender oil and mirtazapine dreams, I go looking for her. Having wandered on the wrong side of the River Wear for weeks"
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Postscript
In all our fanciful talk of crisp, white bed sheets, Romania, and teaching English, I never thought to mention we would call our son 'Ted'
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