Philip Sidney

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I have 165 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 997163 times and 211 of my stories have been cherry picked.
385 of my 5,087 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 382 votes

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Again and Again (Poetry Monthly)

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 05 Mar 2016

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)

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 27 Feb 2016

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

By Philip Sidney on Thu, 18 Feb 2016

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)

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 06 Feb 2016

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)

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 23 Jan 2016

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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385 of my comments have received 382 Great Feedback votes

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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.

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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.

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Posted in .12 wet dreams

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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.

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