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I have 573 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 583835 times
and 322 of my stories have been cherry picked.
5 of my 93 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 6 votes
My stories
A Bed Unmade (for Ruth)
A bed unmade as if robbed of order. We stand in the hallway jacketed and keyed itching to scratch once more. Out in the street we take hands and...
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- 1614 reads
Mapping The Heart
I find you in the library scribbling on rough paper your sad, sad map of the world. I snatch your pen draw a heart on your shirt. You recoil a loaded...
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- 1358 reads
Swept
The wind wraps me in to you. And I can stand this. For I am swept again. This isn't melancholy, crashing a wave, a lost riptide. I am clear on that. All of that.
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- 1632 reads
February 29th And The Hard Boiled Egg
And all these tears that I have steamed whilst sitting here This past year and a day has caught up with me * I'm sporting a recognised grin Because...
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- 1228 reads
In Port Augusta
And it's you and I a tinned radio on the bench at the bus station in Port Augusta South Australia Your face falls in and out of shadow the late...
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- 1260 reads