celticman

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I have 1130 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1749490 times and 1139 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1389 of my 14,749 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1424 votes

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Love Story 5

Her underactive imagination had me thinking for both of us. How we should behave since we kinda agreed not to get formally engaged until I could...
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Cherry

Love Story 4.

I tearfully confided in Colin in a side room in the church, where we stacked extra chairs we never used. But God willing, might someday. I didn’t...
Cherry

Love Story 3

The furrows on my da’s forehead stood like stepping stones to his thoughts. The measured way he lowered the back paged of the Daily Record’s sports...
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Love Story 2

I wasn’t fully Baptised in the Spirit. Which to some church members meant I wasn’t baptised. Our prayer leader, Colin, spoke in tongues. So I was...
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Love story

My wee girlfriend had no neck, no shoulders, no breasts and untamed gorgon hair. Ali wasn’t really my girlfriend but lived beside me. She flicked her...

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1389 of my comments have received 1424 Great Feedback votes

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It's always nice to meet a

Posted on Fri, 08 Mar 2024

It's always nice to meet a dead person. Hopefully, it remains on the page. I'm quite keen on ghosts and ghostly goings on. But I'd rather it was somebody else's goings on. 

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Posted in The Golden Fleece (Part Two of Two)

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amen to that. 

Posted on Tue, 05 Mar 2024

amen to that. 

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Posted in Blind Faith

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ah, pubs, prayer and witches,

Posted on Wed, 06 Mar 2024

ah, pubs, prayer and witches, may your potion not spoil. 

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Posted in The Golden Fleece (Part One of Two)

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wow, didn't understand a word

Posted on Wed, 06 Mar 2024

wow, didn't understand a word, but I'm agog. 

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Posted in The Road to Erehwon

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lovely pic, makes your heart

Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2024

lovely pic, makes your heart sing, as your words do too. 

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Posted in Rousing Spring

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Being human, what pain, what

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Being human, what pain, what peril! I really liked this story, which is not a story, more a condition, a human condition. I remember Bucks Fizz. The blonde girls were very pretty. I can't remember if the song got to number 1, but it was a nice-...

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Posted in Land of Make Believe

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walking, dancing and prancing

Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2024

walking, dancing and prancing, words on the page, set the stage. (does sound quite far though). 

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Posted in The Fish Hawker

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weeds or the world-unite-and

Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2024

weeds or the world-unite-and rise up. 

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Posted in Weeding

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seems too bad to be true, but

Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2024

seems too bad to be true, but we all know. Some choose not to see. 

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Posted in whispers.

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wow. I'm not a robot. I'd

Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024

wow. I'm not a robot. I'd quite forgotten about her daughter, Annie. I'm a doomonger too. Nothing makes me happier than doomongering. But I've got those crampons on, I'm left-wing of the eat the rich variety. Donald Trump was always too much for...

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Posted in Parcel for you...part 20

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