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I have 588 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 830380 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
The Question
The Question “Yes. She lived opposite Number thirty two. Didn’t really know her. We minded our own business. But, I recall this odd thing though. She would wait at the window,
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Undressed
My ex wife sitting naked on the bare stone floor, smoking my cigarettes, listening to the songs of Leonard Cohen. It’s the coolest thing that I’ve ever seen. There has been no sex.
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Mexico 1970
There were rumours, of decimalisation. A new decade in modernism, at Manor House Junior school. It was the summer of 1970. Of Esso World Cup coins. Fools gold for heroes.
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Delia's How to Cook. Book 1
In the bookshop. In Basildon. We bonded. You with your cookbooks. Me behind the till. You asked me around. For tea. Pie and cream. I accepted. There and then.
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Leaving London
They are burning good books for warmth. Eating cats and dogs for tea. Chewing, laughing, and screaming. I can see them in our street. They are talking rabies on the radio.
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