Philip Sidney
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1017489 times
and 211 of my stories have been cherry picked.
385 of my 5,085 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 382 votes
My stories
Wolf Fish
Behind the seal museum between wall and sea on the rough shale margins lay a heap of broken things. A dented car, windows smashed, resting on wooden...
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Licking up the Landscape
A response to the photograph.
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Road Ghazal
You’ve grown used to the cold, the language, driving on the other side of the road. You’ve grown used to the food, the drinking, mountains and ocean...
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Bone Beach
Steel iced water laps between long fingers of land, colder than old time. Glacial winds bite, buoyant ducks whoop, wrapped in their Eider-downy...
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Dinosaurs
They walk the earth think that they own it take for granted that they or one of their kind will win the right to tell us how to live our lives. Self-...
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Clever structure, really adds
Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2015
Clever structure, really adds to the shattered emotions and tension. Always interesting to consider strangers in public places. Great read.
Read full commentPosted in The little white box
Loved this! You evoke that
Posted on Sat, 18 Jul 2015
Loved this! You evoke that strange crossover from life into image of the photograph, so much to see if you look, as with this rather wonderful poem.
Read full commentPosted in Photograph exhibition (poetry monthly)
Thank you so much! How
Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2014
Thank you so much! How lovely that you read it. :)
Read full commentPosted in Dust
They are learning more about
Posted on Wed, 08 Jul 2015
They are learning more about this strange place and how to behave in it. More great characters here.
Read full commentPosted in Chapter 16 Conquest of Chimera
Some great descriptions and
Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2015
Some great descriptions and unusual ideas here.
Read full commentPosted in Chapter 14 Conquest of Chimera
Clever structure, full of
Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2015
Clever structure, full of cracking energy then gradually cools down.
Read full commentPosted in ‘Blowing hot and cold’ (IP)
I can see the way this series
Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015
I can see the way this series will go...
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Hurrah! You're posting again
Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015
Hurrah! You're posting again, another (glassy) gem.
Read full commentPosted in A Game of Stones
I love those fleeting
Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015
I love those fleeting glimpses of other lives from a train window, speed and stillness meet. The Degas pose is a lovely image, as is the winter jasmine wind wrap, an elderly ballerina in contrast to hard metallic lines, has a touch of Chagall...
Read full commentPosted in From a Stopping Train (Poetry Monthly)
A beautiful cartoon, strange
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2015
A beautiful cartoon, strange and dreamy.
Read full commentPosted in Chapter Ten Conquest of Chimera
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