Philip Sidney

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I have 166 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 608585 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

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Meeting Ourselves Coming Back

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 29 Nov 2014

I visited the new Birmingham Library to renew my vows and give thanks. I had never fallen out of love; I’d just been distracted by the easy...

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Autobiography

Non-fiction

Certificate U

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Looking for Lucy Lloyd

By Philip Sidney on Fri, 28 Nov 2014

While recording lives of others her own slipped away. She lingers in sepia as a face that won’t fit. Victorian vicar’s daughter - poor relation to...

Biography

Poem

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Ghost Hunting in New England

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 01 Nov 2014

I only ever saw a ghost once. It was a few days after the death of my father. I hadn’t expected him to die; ever. He died before we had managed to...

Non-fiction

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City Loving

By Philip Sidney on Thu, 16 Oct 2014

You took me in your concrete arms - I felt the chill of your fabrication against my tender skin. You scratched me, bruised me, won me. I grew older...

Poem

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Map Reading for Beginners

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 11 Oct 2014

Wisdom criss-crosses the papery surface. Colour, symbol, measure, land, made knowable, traversable. Reality, scaled down. Stroke the mossy rock,...

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400 of my comments have received 398 Great Feedback votes

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strong plot and sharp writing

Posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2015

strong plot and sharp writing.

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Such a strong sense of time

Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2015

Such a strong sense of time and place.

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Bleakly brilliant.

Posted on Wed, 01 Apr 2015

Bleakly brilliant.

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This is such a powerful piece

Posted on Tue, 24 Mar 2015

This is such a powerful piece. It would be worth correcting things like capital letters, paragraphing, also slight niggles like wind can't pierce skin etc, only so the piece is given the justice it deserves.

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