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I have 88 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 736980 times and 91 of my stories have been cherry picked.
76 of my 2,249 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 79 votes

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Coral Jane

Mother and Daughter.

I joined Abctales in 2010 and my daughter Julia a year later (2011). Unfortunately due to ill health, despite having been a prolific writer since childhood, she only managed to post a small number of pieces whilst active on the site. Following her unexpected and preventable death in 2016, I posted more of her poems on my own account under her username, which seemed a logical step at the time.

In 2019 her entire body of work was published by Cerasuspoetry.com in a book entitled WAITING FOR ANOTHER VELVET MORNING, which is still available on Amazon (proceeds to charity}. Her original work still remains on her account Overthetop.

I don't write as much now, though the occasional piece pops up once in a while.

Coral Jane Macpherson (seashore)
Julia Jane Macpherson (Overthetop1) deceased in 2016

My stories

Cherry

Saturday's child

One from the archives, re-written
Cherry

Portrait of an artist, sleeping

remembering a fellow art student from my college days back in the 70's
Cherry

Girl by the lake, standing

"Before us stands yesterday" - Ted Hughes: The Crow Above quote doesn't have much to do with this poem - I just liked it.
Cherry

Toxic

The problems of involuntary benzodiapine addiction & withdrawals have again hit the news (front page of the Times,1.10.12) prompting me to post this, scribbled in a notebook two years ago...
Cherry

Watching the candle burn

August 6th: one date, different years, distinctive for two members of the same family - one lived a very short time, the other much longer - both imperfect

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76 of my comments have received 79 Great Feedback votes

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A little beauty of a poem.

Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024

A little beauty of a poem.

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Posted in Our Soil

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Ah, thanks so much for the congrats insert

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

I came close to deleting this but glad I didn't. Might just rest on my cherries - I mean laurels - for a bit. This took a few weeks and several drafts, but it's good to be creative again...

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Posted in Killing the killers

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Thank you marandina. The idea

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

Thank you marandina. The idea originally came from my other daughter (a psychologist) - a technique she used during her own grief. I forgot about it until another wave hit me hard - so with the encouragement of a good friend (who knew my...

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Posted in Killing the killers

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This particular sort of thing...

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

...is very much my sort of thing Terry.
I knew you wouldn't stay away from Abc for long.
I remember a time (probably about 10 years ago) when I was totally addicted.
So much has happened in the intervening years (mostly not good...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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Ah a quick cherry for the

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023

Ah a quick cherry for the insomniac! No surprises there. I'm resorting to counting my home moves, up to 30 soon as you know. Trouble is I get distracted worrying about the circumstances surrounding each move, how when and where, so it doesn't...

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Posted in Three O’Clock Sheep Club

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Oh dear, should I see myself

Posted on Wed, 28 Jun 2023

Oh dear, should I see myself amongst your foot clients here?

No, I definitely don't. And I hope you have appropriate (and genuine) letters after your name. I also hope you didn't give anyone cause to be prescribed antibiotics through...

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Posted in The Jammy Tax Dodger

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That's a lovely thing to say

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

That's a lovely thing to say Terry, and means so much x

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Posted in You Never Said

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Lovely poem - can't believe

Posted on Wed, 27 Sep 2023

Lovely poem - can't believe you wrote that so soon after your return. How do you do it? I paint quickly but writing is a chore, draft after draft...

I'm still surprised you didn't bump into my ancestor- statues in Cork,Tipperary and...

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Posted in Beneath Cnoc Daod

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I hoped this would win poem

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

I hoped this would win poem of the week, Terry. So full of emotion. I can't stop reading it xx

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Posted in You Never Said

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Turlough - I have been

Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023

Turlough - I have been alerted to this piece by Claudine (insertponceyfrenchname...) and I am indeed seashore (Coral Jane) the mother of your siren.

This is a beautiful piece of writing (and not just because I'm biased).

Thank you...

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Posted in Song to My Siren

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