Philip Sidney
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I have 166 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 616238 times
and 212 of my stories have been cherry picked.
400 of my 5,341 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 398 votes
My stories
The Sick Child
She hadn’t noticed sickness settling in daylight had her skipping over warnings, too caught up in the green/gold of living to think of night. Not...
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Back from the Light
Out in the limelight pain thumped its leaden booted dance putting thought in the shade - it was a matter of time a virtuoso performance will not be...
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Mindscape: Beach (Poetry Monthly)
A crab's-eye view from the sand whispers 'colour' - an invitation to sink into the summer stripes of blue, azure, aqua, pewter, white in tasteful,...
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Mindscape: Ice (Poetry Monthly)
Greenland is a Miro abstract from the air white canvas, punctuated by blue eyes and mouths, they look up I think myself into the blank below...
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Hanging with my Sisters
Cornerstones, they hold me up - they do not know, months slip by without a word shadows cloak me in their silent presence, but when we meet the talk...
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The violence is sickening,
Posted on Sat, 25 Jun 2016
The violence is sickening, but I guess that's the point. You take us to the eye of the storm, the ebbing away a relief.
Read full commentPosted in Where people only go to work and from which they come away again at night
I like the strange and
Posted on Tue, 14 Jun 2016
I like the strange and atmospheric; the mystery of the story hinted at.
Read full commentPosted in Something Dead In The Road
I love the imagery here, a
Posted on Sun, 05 Jun 2016
I love the imagery here, a brooding state of tranformation, victim to biology. An interesting interpretation of the painting.
Read full commentPosted in Hope I (Gustav Klimt 1903)
Full of pathos, humour and
Posted on Thu, 26 May 2016
Full of pathos, humour and the ridiculousness of wealth. Such a unique piece. I love it!
Read full commentPosted in Today We Dressed Up And Pretended To Be Rich
I like the visual quality
Posted on Fri, 20 May 2016
I like the visual quality here. It feels like a painting with blocks of stong colour and some sort of sleeping narraive connecting them. Really interesting voice, giving imperatives to self - or is it some sort of controlling external voice? ...
Read full commentPosted in The imperative (Poetry Monthly)
Lovely, light and so heavy
Posted on Thu, 12 May 2016
Lovely, light and so heavy with sadness.
Read full commentPosted in Delicate
A nice reminder of the the
Posted on Sun, 01 May 2016
A nice reminder of the the Narnia subtext.
Read full commentPosted in The Allegory of Aslan’s Sacrifice
This made me think of a few
Posted on Fri, 29 Apr 2016
This made me think of a few things, how this dreamy sort of teaching in the sun sounds rather more preferable to the classroom teaching, endless marking and planning in the grey. And the Irish pub! When my youngest decided to go and live in...
Read full commentPosted in Dreams and reality: "Dubliners"
I could see this as a black
Posted on Sat, 30 Apr 2016
I could see this as a black and white film, nice sense of drama.
Read full commentPosted in The 100/1 shot
A clever riddle in this well
Posted on Sat, 23 Apr 2016
A clever riddle in this well-structured piece!
Read full commentPosted in QN 4 2DAY
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