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I have 574 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 587886 times
and 325 of my stories have been cherry picked.
5 of my 94 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 6 votes
My stories
Languages
It’s early evening and I’m meeting a man to discuss iambic. He offers a drink and I refuse and he asks why not, of course. I say one will lead to...
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- 406 reads
She
And I walk alone in a city wept of its men and what we do. Last week, in early Spring, I ’ d cock my head, maybe smile. But here, as if a Crocus. I...
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- 394 reads
Kid B
Radiohead can’t help you now. As your MacBook loses its sheen. Breaths are sampled through bleeped hours. A country coughs in twinkled green.
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- 193 reads
Fork (after Robert Frost)
Five years and I’m back in the middle of this. The lipstick, cocaine traces and cheap tequila are the weapons of her dislocation. She beckons me from...
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- 183 reads
Gloria
The diggers at Black Cross waiting for grief that climbs its reason hilltop bound. Sting of the hot funeral tear, cold rain on wild-red curly hair...
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