Philip Sidney
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I have 156 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 240547 times
and 194 of my stories have been cherry picked.
370 of my 5,179 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 366 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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Wonderfully atmospheric.
Posted on Wed, 07 Dec 2016
Wonderfully atmospheric. Such powerful metaphors. Tenses are a little confused but this is such a moving piece.
Read full commentPosted in They call me the Portal
Natural born writer. The
Posted on Fri, 25 Nov 2016
Natural born writer. The child's tender understanding is so touching.
Read full commentPosted in widdershins
Wonderfully inventive use of
Posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2016
Wonderfully inventive use of language!
Read full commentPosted in Digispeak
Thank you! :)
Posted on Wed, 26 Oct 2016
Thank you! :)
Read full commentPosted in Minotaurs
You describe these dreadful
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
You describe these dreadful losses with clarity, so that we put ourselves in your place, but still can only imagine the awful pain you must live with. Another very special poem, thank you for feeling able to share this with us.
Read full commentPosted in Blue
You reawakened a memory of
Posted on Thu, 27 Oct 2016
You reawakened a memory of waiting for life to turn into a fairy tale. I love this!
Read full commentPosted in Meeting a wolf
This would make a cute and
Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2016
This would make a cute and educational picture book.
Read full commentPosted in The T-Rex who Lost his Teeth
Gorgeous writing!
Posted on Wed, 31 Aug 2016
Gorgeous writing!
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Wonderfully evocative writing
Posted on Wed, 31 Aug 2016
Wonderfully evocative writing. A most effective shift from vibrancy and colour to a drifting sense of sadness.
Read full commentPosted in The Grief of Gaziantep.
Wonderful characters and
Posted on Thu, 28 Jul 2016
Wonderful characters and memories drifting as smoke.
Read full commentPosted in Strictly, The Last Supper
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