Philip Sidney
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 815433 times
and 211 of my stories have been cherry picked.
392 of my 5,280 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 390 votes
My stories
Again and Again (Poetry Monthly)
Photograph of Marie Sweeney produced by Charles Van Schaick between 1890 and 1910 used in the book Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (1973)
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Gardening (Poetry Monthly)
A boy tends plants under a foil sky to the monotone of big-bulbed lamps humming in electric unison. White, silver, green colour this pungent world -...
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Old Central Birmingham Library
Old Central Birmingham Library the dark decades had us sitting on your concrete steps we smokers, dreamers, waiting for adventurers. You were the...
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Border Control (Poetry Monthly)
I’ve given up on border control, the making and remaking of beds, there’s pleasure in surrender to the slow creep over and under the hedge. A tangle...
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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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Beautifully meditative.
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2017
Beautifully meditative.
Read full commentPosted in Jogging in the park
I love how this mixes the
Posted on Thu, 09 Nov 2017
I love how this mixes the mundane with the profound. Startling and deeply moving.
Read full commentPosted in At the Arts Council in Manchester
Loved this story!
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2017
Loved this story! Brilliantly witchy.
Read full commentPosted in Cheetah
Really clever use of pronouns
Posted on Sat, 07 Oct 2017
Really clever use of pronouns, the He giving distance and the I taking ownership. There's something truthful here that you insist the reader confronts.
Read full commentPosted in .12 wet dreams
This really holds the reader,
Posted on Thu, 31 Aug 2017
This really holds the reader, rather too many adjectives in the opening for me, but i'm nit-picking as you're after advice. Welcome to ABCtales - really looking forward to reading more of your work.
Read full commentPosted in Eyes
Beautiful writing!
Posted on Wed, 23 Aug 2017
Beautiful writing!
Read full commentPosted in Eliza
An engaging story, lots of
Posted on Fri, 18 Aug 2017
An engaging story, lots of intriguing characterisation.
Read full commentPosted in Amended Deep Earth
Love it! Slightly freaky -
Posted on Tue, 25 Jul 2017
Love it! Slightly freaky - but that's a good thing!
Read full commentPosted in A Letter To Remember
Or we'll find ourselves
Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2017
Or we'll find ourselves bumping along with some other oddness imposed by our 'leaders'.
Read full commentPosted in Something's broke
A great sense of energy made
Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2017
A great sense of energy made with these rhythms.
Read full commentPosted in Festival Of Life (Freeform poem)
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