Stephen Thom
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I have 136 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 412534 times
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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
Aura (26)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (25)
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Aura (24)
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Aura (23)
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Aura (22)
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hey i read these two yday,
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015
hey i read these two yday, there's so much observance in your writing and the characters are so real. i find such real-life writing hard to do but your attention to detail demands investment and i found myself mentally taking notes to learn. the...
Read full commentPosted in Daisy and The Chalet Woman (Part Two)
aw i enjoyed reading some of
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015
aw i enjoyed reading some of your prose! this had lots of personality, a quiet sadness, liked the layered possibilities of a disappearance and return at such a time 'the day after the end of the world' and i liked little attentive touches like...
Read full commentPosted in They Called Him a Tramp. I Called Him Joe
cracking, sparky stuff, loads
Posted on Sun, 17 May 2015
cracking, sparky stuff, loads of personality, much enjoyed reading. would like to read more. dialogue was excellent and part. liked 'After a lungful of piss-stink in the gents'. re: above ^ didnt think there was too many f words at all. great,...
Read full commentPosted in Belgium
hey, this was great, v
Posted on Tue, 19 May 2015
hey, this was great, v transportive in thoughts and propulsion. love train settings and it played alongside the thoughts well. really enjoyed some of the original prose moments - the rush of 'I am half-cut, face-pressed-against-the-glass glad to...
Read full commentPosted in I Can Stop When I Want To
very sad but very special
Posted on Wed, 04 Feb 2015
very sad but very special poem...appreciate the starkness, makes the keynote 'my heart was never strong enough-' phrase and the ending all the more devastating...wonderful piece
Read full commentPosted in The other day
trill thrilled song..
Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2015
trill thrilled song...perfect three words. this is lovely, i love reading the poetry here, love that you can freeze these moments and stretch time this way and constantly reaffirm the wonder in the small things, and therefore everything...'makes...
Read full commentPosted in Small
always enjoy your ability to
Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2015
always enjoy your ability to bottle nature and the elements and project them with lovely phrases like 'whirl the twigs along the floor, bend the oak, and buffet ship'. and again repeating but i like the idea/homage/imagination, bringing something...
Read full commentPosted in February
nice one, lots of personality
Posted on Tue, 27 Jan 2015
nice one, lots of personality in your writing :-) lines like 'looks like it popped out of the 60's, robbed the 70's, then gave birth to the 80's' really sparky and add lots to your style. well crafted intense sequence in the middle, nice...
Read full commentPosted in Truth or Dare
this is really good. the
Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2015
this is really good. the short clipped sentences at the start really ramp up the early tension and v atmospheric throughout, adding a haunting quality to the fraught exchanges. goes to some dark places, pulling the reader along with descriptions...
Read full commentPosted in Under My Skin
this felt quite epic bee, i
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2015
this felt quite epic bee, i loved the lyricism of the once we were runners- lines, the small moments of repetition throughout and the line put out the fires that burned in the flight of our hair against (later) her head on my pillow, hair like a...
Read full commentPosted in Once, We Were Runners
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