MJG

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My stories have been read 29491 times and 43 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Silk Moths’ Secrets (for Nobel prize-winner Adolf Friedrich Butenandt)

By MJG on Mon, 04 Feb 2019

Party Member 3716562 calculated bomber pilots’ oxygen uptake, surrendered human sex hormones to crystalline, drawn to female silk moths’ volatile...
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Certificate U
Cherry

No Good News

By MJG on Wed, 19 Dec 2018

Grey dawn with builder’s tea and buttered toast my computer eyes the dark world for sewer stories that stick like burrs. The woman who axes her...
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Certificate 12
Cherry

Summer's end

By MJG on Thu, 11 Oct 2018

Rain hammers on windows before the hurricane. I fling open the wardrobe where summer still hangs; scented with perfume and sunscreen, translucent...
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Certificate 12
Cherry

Toad Spring 2018

By MJG on Wed, 31 Jan 2018

The soil suddenly breathed as I forked a pale Hellebore into sodden earth. Almost riven through a spoon-backed, squat toad. Warty: blotched green-...
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Certificate U
Gold cherry

The lover, the husband and the wife

By MJG on Fri, 08 Sep 2017

Ava counted the two halves of the month in her mind, rocking them together like a cradle as Josh slid out of her. There was only a remote chance of...
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Certificate 15

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