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I have 585 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 700834 times and 339 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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My stories

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Casino Town

Wigan: 104,331 people elected to leave with 58, 942 opting to remain. The governing Conservative Party last won a parliamentary election in Wigan in...

Under This

A dream. They are stoning me as I walk Westgate. Friends, a lover and the homeless man I used to talk to. I always said I understood them. But all I...
Cherry

A Period of Quarantine (after Stevie Smith)

I’m radio active. It’s for my thyroid, you see. They say it’ll work wonders. That those things will disappear. The sweats, palpitations. The madness...
Cherry
Poem of the week

Going Out For Cigarettes

We waited for details throughout the night. We ate toast and jam, sipped instant coffee. Phones ran out of credit. Those moments defined us. Danny...

St John’s (after Van Morrison)

Cerys plays tunes this morning on my radio birds chirp the trees of St John’s and I’ve fine coffee from Guatemala the sun streams through and a...

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