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I have 238 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 925185 times and 339 of my stories have been cherry picked.
978 of my 3,405 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1057 votes

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I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.

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978 of my comments have received 1057 Great Feedback votes

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I read once that the magpie's

Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2024

I read once that the magpie's name was an abbreviation of 'maggot pie' but your explanation makes more sense.

Your words of mystery describe the charachteristics of this creature of mystery beautifully.

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This is wonderful Paul.

Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021

This is wonderful Paul.

They say that India challenges and excites every sense in the human body and your words reinforce that suggestion perfectly. I love those adventures packed with chaos and not knowing what's going to happen next....

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Inverness

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Sometimes when people waiting on tour buses have shouted at me to hurry up and get back on the tour bus I have taken great delight in stopping and taking a photograph of them and the bus. A photographer can always justify the need to take one...

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Posted in Only Here for The Poets

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Your Cat Island sounds a bit

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Your Cat Island sounds a bit like our house. Could all these beasts that beguile us in our kitchen every morning be the spirits of children we didn't know we had?

A good read Paul. I very much enjoyed it.

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Posted in Enoshima (Part Two of Two)

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Many thanks Ewan for the

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Many thanks Ewan for the cherries and for the great comment.

I think if I was categorising myself I'd probably go for any old shite. It would be nice to be part of a niche market.

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Exhausting but rewarding for

Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2024

Exhausting but rewarding for the farmer and the sheep. The need of a lamp to see it through adds to the atmosphere without revealing which age it might have been in. Your poem describes the event extremely well.

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Posted in Night Help

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Thanks very much for your

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Thanks very much for your encouragement and support Di. The short answer to your question, I'm afraid, is that I can't be bothered.

Two things make me want to write. One is that younger generations of my family will have something to read...

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Posted in Lovely Palace, Must Fly

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I admire you for taking a

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

I admire you for taking a crash course in Japanese (or was that just in the story?). A Chinese friend of mine here in Bulgaria tried to give me a crash course in Mandarin but in the end (well, after thirty minutes) my brain crashed.

Your...

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Posted in Enoshima (Part One of Two)

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I love this bit...

Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2024

I love this bit...

Heavy cloud in fashionable grey spread from horizon to horizon leaching the colour out of greens of any remaining foliage and reds of brickwork.

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978 of my comments have received 1057 Great Feedback votes

I read once that the magpie's

This is wonderful Paul.

Inverness

Your Cat Island sounds a bit

Many thanks Ewan for the

Exhausting but rewarding for

Thanks very much for your

I admire you for taking a

I love this bit...

It was the Farsi word for

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