Ray Schaufeld
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My stories have been read 459118 times
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Shifting Sands
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...
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Coimbra Haiku
Downtown cobbled view Too many up and down steps My wine party in. Past "backbreakers' climb Red slogans, wet sheets, communes Student dreampower...
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Why Feminism - Me too?
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...
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Les Rowse, Philippe and I , final chapter.
Warning,the incident that makes me leave home is a bit sordid.
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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 ...
Read full commentPosted in Hate Thy Neighbour – Racism In The 1970s
'yet I did stay from place to
Posted on Tue, 30 May 2017
'How r u guyz?' great opening line, the matey colloquial textspeak masking the noncommunication.
'yet I did stay from place to place with some carrier bags containing my clothes.'
You were homeless. I am not saying this to make you...
Read full commentPosted in My Mother and I aren't Talking and Other Tales.
Wow! I shall e-mail Dad
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
Wow! I shall e-mail Dad pronto
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
Wish I was there
Posted on Wed, 03 May 2017
Wish I was there
Read full commentPosted in on the Coast path 2/5/17
Yes, when the big wheel stops
Posted on Sat, 22 Apr 2017
Yes, when the big wheel stops still you learn who your friends are...
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Rhiannon this is a great
Posted on Mon, 03 Apr 2017
Rhiannon this is a great piece of loving reality.
Read full commentPosted in ‘Where is your home?’
An enigmatic mix of past and
Posted on Wed, 22 Mar 2017
An enigmatic mix of past and present, If you wrote this with a flesh and blood person in mind I hope they enjoyed it too.Or is it about the need to be alone coupled with the need to be part of society. Either way, it works.
Read full commentPosted in Society
I voted remain too. I did not
Posted on Fri, 24 Mar 2017
I voted remain too. I did not study the matter too deeply but I felt then and I still feel now that is is better for England to remain part of Europe than for us to become an isolated clapped out little country out here on our own.The first...
Read full commentPosted in Is this what our politics have become?
Warm hearted as well as
Posted on Sat, 18 Mar 2017
Warm hearted as well as handling the matter of fact have-tos. As an early morning person I liked the timing. The lady in the shop is a good cameo and may also work well as the subject for a poem or short story. Your Dad and his porridge and the...
Read full commentPosted in 1500 Paces
Lovely real-seeming
Posted on Sat, 18 Mar 2017
Lovely real-seeming storytelling
Read full commentPosted in The border of earth
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