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I have 2060 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
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Tumultuous Autumn

Dark days, wet days, grey days … Bright days, golden-orange-trees-ablaze days … Flaming trees and mud – safe bulb and bud.
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Frightfully funny?

Why do the shops and schools, and Homes fill with giggles at ghouls and gore and ugly imaginary frights for shuddering at shadows, but say it’s all...
Cherry

Don’t feel 'at home'

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I do not feel ‘at home’ here, an ‘alien’ now exiled, for evil things are done here and everything’s defiled...
Cherry

Am I …, have I … ?

Lion-like pride or a rhino-thick hide, vain as a peacock or sneaky as a fox, sly as a snake or a flattering cat, prickly as a porcupine, stubborn as...

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1504 of my comments have received 1547 Great Feedback votes

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Nice to have some of the

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Nice to have some of the landscapes described as well as the archeological wonders.
The travelling sounds exhausting, so easier to be an armchair reader. I was thinking aboiut your desire to learn Bulgarian once setteld there to be able to...

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Posted in Only Here for The Poets

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You draw the situation gently

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

You draw the situation gently and clearly. They seem to be reasonably happy after so long, so one wonders what will happen in Part 2. Makes me think a little of my in-laws who got married so quickly at the end of WW2, and she I think wanted to...

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Posted in Enoshima (Part One of Two)

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When was this trip? I can

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

When was this trip? I can enjoy descriptions of historical buildings and museums, but much prefer reading the history and when out and about enjoying the different landscapes etc. When we have visited museums my husband wants to read every card...

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Posted in Lovely Palace, Must Fly

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It is staggering and

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

It is staggering and impressive to see the strata so displayed.

The questions come as to how long it took to form each layer and fossilize dead creatures. For some time it has been assumed that it was slow millenia for formation, but that...

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Posted in Beginnings

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You draw the picture well of

Posted on Sun, 14 Jan 2024

You draw the picture well of switching off the rowdy voices and enjoying relaxing contemplation out in nature.Thank you.

We may hussle but not achieve unless we take time to relax and steady our soul and perspective, and like Jacques says...

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Posted in "Turn Down the Noise"

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I like brief poems too,

Posted on Thu, 11 Jan 2024

I like brief poems too, Dougie, and I like the sound of this, but I am perplexed at what the meaning of the thrid line would be?!

I've always been pleased when I've got something really brief, especially if it is liked by others! In Welsh...

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Posted in White Doves

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Very desxriptive of the night

Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2024

Very desxriptive of the night and longings for personal and world peace.

I do love 'birdsong ballads on barest boughs.' ! Rhiannon

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Posted in January Panorama

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No, on the whole I don't

Posted on Sun, 07 Jan 2024

No, on the whole I don't think there is any medicene to help, though there may be sometimes associated tensions etc that maybe could be so helped. Calming one to one, routines that are understood, holding firmly and hugging sometimes all can help...

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Posted in Fit For Work

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Reminiscent of the beginning

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Reminiscent of the beginning of The Day of theTriffids. He wasn't affected?

So glad that though much pain and evil is in this world for now, Chance isn't in charge, where anything might happen and be totally out of control. Rhiannon

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Posted in Abyss

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Those children's pictures of

Posted on Sun, 24 Dec 2023

Those children's pictures of his supposed ark always irritate as the measures given indicate it as a huge stable cuboidal shape, safe for the storm!

I hope you have a happy day, Luigi. Rhiannon

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Posted in Noah's Ark

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