Philip Sidney
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I have 163 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 324538 times
and 206 of my stories have been cherry picked.
395 of my 5,432 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 392 votes
My stories
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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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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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
It's what is not said that
Posted on Fri, 18 Aug 2017
It's what is not said that works so well here.
Read full commentPosted in The Raven
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)
How wonderfully restful.
Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2017
How wonderfully restful. Really nice use of rhyme too.
Read full commentPosted in Soothing
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