Stephen Thom
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I have 136 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 397484 times
and 164 of my stories have been cherry picked.
138 of my 1,143 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 143 votes
Stephen Thom
Carrbridge/Edinburgh
Mandolin strummer in a folk-rock band 'Dante' https://www.youtube.com/user/wearedante
@StephenThom3
My stories
Sticks
'There was a grove, dark with holm-oaks, below the Aventine, at sight of which you would say: ‘There’s a god within'. The centre was grassy, and...
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Lighthouses 3
22/10/19 Dawn brought a buttery sky and a wet, sighing creak. The plastic-faced man rowed in silence, dribbles of black pus leaking from the rivets...
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Lighthouses 2
The rain drilled heavier as Kevin pulled himself over the fence behind the block of flats and landed with a wet thump. Lying still for a moment, he...
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Lighthouses 1
[At 3am on a Saturday night I'm walking home through a snare-drum beat of rain, speed-tripping through brewing puddles when a mangy shape creeps from...
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Katorga
On the fifth week they watched as a man was hosed down with boiling water for vomiting accidentally on a Lieutenant through the bars of a steel cage...
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