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I have 365 stories published in 12 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 437472 times and 147 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Loaves and loaves of wardrobes

A bowl of beetroot soup my love, some soup on the bedside table. In your fever, you will feel things too close to the skin, your fingernails are glazing.

Trying to reach Kate

The instinct for survival has been bred out of her and she stands on clifftops, platforms, bridges - an exhausted think tiding knee crane configuring the messages she would make -

This ends it

Dear inhabiting infant, we will not meet. The day you crowned the light was indifferent. I want to tell you how the blanket was the colour of blanket how you looked like rugby

Sheet shapes

I hold my life up like a sheet, look through it and see lovers lives shape; rectangle, rhombus, nonagon. I make holes - run my tongue along flatness. Do sums, my heart is heptagon,
Cherry

Just a terrifying test

The first two lines of this poem are re-phrasing of a Katherine Symmonds poem from the pamhplet 'Snug' Don't ring me on Sundays to tell me about flatmates and weekends

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