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I have 587 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 829650 times
and 342 of my stories have been cherry picked.
8 of my 108 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 9 votes
My stories
At the Arts Council in Manchester
And to think I was just about to complain About the weakness of the coffee when my head turned through the glass to witness the hearse arguing in...
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If I Could Take A Day
My love and I go fretting after the late summer sun, then into the dusk of the West Yorkshire towns. Morley, Horbury, Dewsbury. The night turns, but...
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Haiku Five O'
Beside the wet kerb, chips and doner meat sleep deep. Friday fades away. Taxis rear homewards, the ambulance falls silent. A dead one maybe. A kiss...
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Rumours of a Hurricane
The sky is a peculiar shade of mackerel. Not freshly caught, but maybe out of date. A bit like your your ridiculous rationale, ill informed and...
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Us! (for the New Hanbury Creative Writing Project)
We will last. We will see it through to the glorious never ending. We don’t flinch or as Jack Kerouac once wrote, ‘say a commonplace thing’. These...
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