ralph

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I have 584 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 693720 times and 337 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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My stories

The View From Here

Flaked, muddy window. Aerial wired rooftops. That I cannot afford, to frame anymore. Lightning phrases the sky, thunder applauses. Spotlighting me back, an era of smiles.

Snap

Brace yourself my dear. It’s a holiday in Cumbria. Cut short. The market place. A Kendal mint cake crisis. Paperbacks. bric a brac. frisbee cd, a cup of tea. Silly old me.

Press

Wanting ways to measure the broken pulses of her junkyard mind is as fitful as walking on needles Where sleep ends her terror will begin for she is a scored land that trips and swallows

Hats

I met Lille in Belgium. Hair in a bun. She tested the current, of the incoming squall, by kissing me like a man. Oh windy town of Ostend. The blue and red, of an unmade bed.

The First Bliss

January 1987. And the number one song in heaven. 'Reet Petite' by Jackie Wilson. The radios of Berwick Street market, chiming crackled soul. And do you remember? it was the worst for years.

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