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I have 279 stories published in 12 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 488687 times and 145 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Jude Edman

 

My stories

Villanelle for Good Friday

Choked up clouds now masquerade as night
Cherry

Where Have all the Insects Gone?

I was born in the long hot brown burnt summer of 1976 that saw England invaded by swarms of ladybirds. I know because I've seem crackly television footage of seaside-day trippers fighting them off along the Sussex coast. Perhaps that is why I became a zoologist, perhaps some summer bugs got under my skin before I could even walk.

On the death of a South African Aunt

I've known your name all my life

Lazaro

How strange now I'm old The grasshopper's weight,

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