Ray Schaufeld

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I have 110 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 289315 times and 77 of my stories have been cherry picked.
181 of my 2,147 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 182 votes

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Shifting Sands

By Ray Schaufeld on Mon, 19 Mar 2018

The ebb the flow, the stay the go upon the shifting sands The ebb the flow the yes the no the water and the land I blew in on an August wind and some...

Miscellaneous

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Coimbra Haiku

By Ray Schaufeld on Tue, 13 Mar 2018

Downtown cobbled view Too many up and down steps My wine party in. Past "backbreakers' climb Red slogans, wet sheets, communes Student dreampower...

Travel

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Why Feminism - Me too?

By Ray Schaufeld on Sat, 17 Feb 2018

Two nights ago I was kept awake by my neighbour battering his girlfriend. Today I was in my garden. It’s all hunky-dory now and he is on the phone...

Rant

Non-fiction

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The Fire this Time - Tale of a Student Art Thief

By Ray Schaufeld on Tue, 13 Feb 2018

Autobiography

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Les Rowse, Philippe and I , final chapter.

By Ray Schaufeld on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Warning,the incident that makes me leave home is a bit sordid.

Autobiography

Non-fiction

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In some people luxury creates an induced feeling of necessity

Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2017

In some people luxury creates an induced sense of necessity.'Always wanting more' is astute'

But does being poor always lead to goodness? I think that sometimes it leads to anger and self-pity.However I have more tolerance for miserable...

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Posted in Poor Rich Man/ Poor Man, Rich

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The opening sets the scene

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

The opening sets the scene effectively. and you get us into what has happened.The final paragraph is flawless, I see the man in front of me and can guess at the unmet needs on both sides.

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Posted in The Oil Refinery

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It's the Bank Holiday and I

Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017

It's the Bank Holiday and I have spare time so I am going to yakk on a bit.

When a writer or musician is good and they have something to say my own view is sometimes 'never trust the singer, trust the song' By all means recognise the...

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Posted in Evening Walk in a Seaside Town

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I like your own angles on

Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017

I like your own angles on Eliot, Ewan. Did the man ever realise how funny he must have looked? Going to Margate on the bank holiday and walking into the pub where the cockney family were drinking and chatting. What did Eliot wear for his day down...

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Posted in Evening Walk in a Seaside Town

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Great poem. I like the

Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017

Great poem. I like the internal sounds you made with the right amount of the words. it all hangs and flutters together. You create echoes, reverberations...

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Posted in The Treetops

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Accents can be telling but

Posted on Thu, 30 Jul 2015

Accents can be telling but sometimes I don't know what they tell us. I have two Scottish daughters and moved to the Westcountry while the big one was 11 and the little 'un was four. Within a few months little 'un was saying 'moy name is Jess' as ...

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Posted in Hate Thy Neighbour – Racism In The 1970s

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