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I have 2028 stories published in 16 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 4205094 times and 627 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1481 of my 13,008 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1524 votes

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River in Spate

Downpour falling river filling spilling tumbling … the ocean vast at last.

Cautionary Pictures 5)

Cocksure cockiness– carelessness, and ignorance – comes a cropper, comeuppance; nose in the air – ‘look around!’ ‘watch the ground’! ‘beware!’ ‘...

Gospel – Good News from God

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I’m not ashamed of the gospel , the gospel of Christ, the Lord: … Righteousness by faith alone!

Cautionary Pictures 4)

A heart that clings to things will find those things take wings one day.
Cherry

Cautionary Pictures 3)

Easy to break, hard to mend, quarrel begun hard to end.

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1481 of my comments have received 1524 Great Feedback votes

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So sad, effectively told in

Posted on Wed, 26 Aug 2015

So sad, effectively told in its simplicity and brevity. Is it based on a number of incidents or one in particular? Rhiannon

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Posted in Spilt Milk

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Very sad. I expect if you are

Posted on Wed, 26 Aug 2015

Very sad. I expect if you are waiting for a possible explanation if feels like it may solve something for you, though probably it wouldn't really make a difference to the shattering bereavement. The 'whether to have a PM or not' must be so hard,...

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Posted in Post mortem results

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It's even more difficult if

Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2015

It's even more difficult if you're talking to someone who seems to feel an obligation to continue, and doesn't pick up on the hints that you feel that you need to go, but you don't want to lie about a committment, but you can't really say, 'I've...

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Posted in Loose Ends

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the action of waves, real and

Posted on Thu, 06 Aug 2015

the action of waves, real and metaphoric, haven't got my head totally around the beachcombing. The waves wash away and bring in flotsam and jetsam?
Inprints = Imprints?
Rhiannon

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Posted in Beach

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the abyss of your absence

Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2015

the abyss of your absence such a telling phrase in so many situations. Though it does reflect a good relationship that has been experienced. And for you, the shared enjoyment of the details of your surroundings, especially the nature...

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Posted in Opacity of Glass

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There is a lot of lovely

Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2015

There is a lot of lovely metaphor again here, maybe rather concentrated for taking it all in? The chorus is lovely and I liked Enticing the sun into scything the night, starry-eyed very much.
The whole rhythmic form is well worked...

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Posted in Sleep In My Arms Lullaby

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Very cleverly written. I too

Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2015

Very cleverly written. I too like acrostic poems, but so often they do feel rather forced, but this doesn't, and the bringing in of the initial letters for each line seems very neatly done. I particularly like the lines Threatening all but...

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Posted in 'Why Ever Not'

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Hungry, alive       Injured,

Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2015

Hungry, alive       Injured, survived  brought to mind those feelings of many after disasters.
Exhausted, taxed drew such an unexpected lesson for perservering.
It also brought to my mind how being puffed up and...

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Posted in Positive Thinking

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You have a knack of

Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015

You have a knack of describing your feelings. When I had to wake to my father-in-law's calls, when he was still here, I got to frequently not be able to get back to sleep, and in the end found I had to mix sometimes doing something (reading,...

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Posted in A.M.

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I agree with randy-johnson.

Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2015

I agree with randy-johnson.T

The problems with Darwin's theory are far greater now than when he formed it, when he felt sure that the mechanisms would become clear. Natural selection is only the means of creatures dying out if environment...

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Posted in I Can't Believe In Darwin's Theory

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