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I have 589 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 730777 times
and 348 of my stories have been cherry picked.
6 of my 108 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 7 votes
My stories
The Worst Words
If I asked you while the sun fell on our past, sinking beneath a brown and loathing sea, what the worst words were. You would perhaps shrug your...
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Peel Park. New Year’s Eve
By the lake the footprint snow cracking as if bird bones. A rat argues with a goose. Who wouldn’t tick this time of day? And I think of the decade...
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10.28 Breaking
Every September I've gone there. Sometimes it’s been sunny and I’d have cold coffee. All through those times, I couldn’t help myself from looking up...
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Bucks from a Cuban
Yeah, the pancakes are good. See that guy over there. Yeah him, chewing meatloaf like a godammed camel. Well round here on the street they say that...
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The Coal Porter
Walking with sand tides against methane winds. A man shadowed through gunmetal blue, seeks coal. There were once days of counting ways of how to live...
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