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I have 581 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 749850 times
and 332 of my stories have been cherry picked.
7 of my 104 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 8 votes
My stories
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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- 293 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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- 583 reads
What I Heard in Sharrow Vale
Now then! In December 1950 Pablo Picasso visited Sheffield for a hair cut and some peace. It was as cold as cubism that day at Butlers Café. They say...
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- 281 reads
Screenshot
What rationale do we have when the sky falls broken blue to a screensaver of Starlings? And I know we are ill at ease. Lost all our mathematics and...
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Linda Blair
Waiting for the bus after ‘ The Exorcist ’ . Your flour caked cheeks, my first scabbed nicks. Then we licked our salty lips, from saveloy and vinegar...
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- 272 reads