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I have 581 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 750659 times
and 332 of my stories have been cherry picked.
7 of my 104 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 8 votes
My stories
Broken Stones
Veronica was never a bad seed. She was once a teenage beauty queen from St Lucia who dreamt of having children. It’s just the sun never shone after...
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Onset
Onset Coiled within verges of back-roads in the petulant August tarmac heat hiss England’s ancient snakes. Waiting for their prey, boiling up the...
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Other Colours, Other Clocks. After W.H Auden
Other Colours, Other Clocks After W.H Auden A summer funeral home in a pound shop Essex town. The flowers are chemical, the doves bleached pigeons...
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Dawn Call Late
Alnmouth, Northumberland, Spring, 2013. On a bench with Gladys Bettess. Overlooking the bay. Above us, a kite, swirls, panics, falls. The...
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England
A town in the south. A March Saturday night. A little bistro that serves pasta dishes to Gladys and Brian. She is all twin set nostalgia. He is...
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