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I have 588 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 831182 times
and 344 of my stories have been cherry picked.
9 of my 109 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 10 votes
My stories
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...
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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...
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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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This Beeston Morning
One magpie, Beeston's little park just outside work. I remember the rhyme and I’ll take its sorrow with a cigarette. The memory of this morning’s...
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North
Aye. We knew summat were wrong with him. He smoked Silk Cut, ate dinner for his tea. He wore big headphones, the longest of coats. Some of us saw him...
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- 416 reads