Philip Sidney
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I have 166 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 608584 times
and 212 of my stories have been cherry picked.
400 of my 5,342 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 398 votes
My stories
Huldufolk (Poetry Monthly)
We are not so different, our spirits grow thin in the absence of joy, you wonder how we survive chill lives spent skipping into rocks, cracked by ice...
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Triptych 3: Souls
Children nod heads at the priest as he instructs them on sin and the soul, they arrange their faces to radiate understanding, as they might for an...
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Triptych 2: Virgins
Madonnas of the bus, balance babes on denim clad limbs, all bones and angles, not soft and milky like renaissance paintings, their eyes are luminous...
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Triptych 1: Mass
Mother in a mantilla rubs her spit dampened handkerchief across a child’s face, not clean enough for God, who lives inside and judges us all. She...
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Love Song to the Universe (Poetry Monthly)
i am small a tiny dot shrinking beyond < invisibility... at the centre of the screen ♦ after all the lights are off YOU would not miss me even if...
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How wonderfully restful.
Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2017
How wonderfully restful. Really nice use of rhyme too.
Read full commentPosted in Soothing
Haha, serves him right!
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
Haha, serves him right!
Read full commentPosted in The Errorphobe
I don't quite get it - but I
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2017
I don't quite get it - but I like it.
Read full commentPosted in After Inventing Poe
Lots of interesting touches
Posted on Wed, 21 Jun 2017
Lots of interesting touches here, I really enjoyed it.
Read full commentPosted in Daddio Returns
Haha! I have long greyish
Posted on Sat, 10 Jun 2017
Haha! I have long greyish hair too - if you do yours I'll do mine.
Read full commentPosted in Not Going With The Flow
A lovely review of friendship
Posted on Thu, 18 May 2017
A lovely review of friendship.
Read full commentPosted in Why God Invented Carts
Such a strong, lilting voice
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
Such a strong, lilting voice in this sad, thought-provoking piece. Some things should not be forgotten. Well done to your father, Elsie - this is our facebook and twitter pick of the day.
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
A great sense of immediacy.
Posted on Sat, 15 Apr 2017
A great sense of immediacy.
Read full commentPosted in The Stone Fish
Very sinister. The
Posted on Sun, 02 Apr 2017
Very sinister. The strumming tone is a great contrast to the dark content.
Read full commentPosted in Cider and Spider Blues ( Fire Flies part 4}
Great sense of time and place
Posted on Mon, 27 Mar 2017
Great sense of time and place.
Read full commentPosted in 52 Years between Avalons
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