celticman

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I have 1130 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1750871 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 15

Ali came to my room after dinner. It was too cold to do anything. So we rolled about my bed, cuddling and kissing. She moaned a few times. Flashed...
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Love Story 14

Mum made us both a pot of tea and put out a plate of Digestive. We sat at the table, knee to knee. She had her fags. I’d my biscuits to dunk in my...
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Cherry

Love Story 13

Da came through for his dinner. He glanced at us talking and laughing, grunted something, as he drowned the fish in salt and vinegar. Picked up his...
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Love Story 12

Mum had a cup of tea on the go and the chip pan on to make Da’s tea. Animal fat and incinerated starch creating a sticky vapour that clung to every...
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Love Story 11

‘She would notice,’ I bit down on my bottom lip to show that was our conversation over. Ali recovered quicker than a whiplash victim cashing a cheque...
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1389 of my comments have received 1424 Great Feedback votes

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sometimes we need the wrong

Posted on Wed, 10 Apr 2024

sometimes we need the wrong kind of glasses to see. Nicely done. There's hope out there if you look. 

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Posted in Eclipse

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wow, insert, the title felt

Posted on Mon, 18 Mar 2024

wow, insert, the title felt vaguely familiar. Then I realised I wrote it!

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Posted in Windfall.

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wonderful twist at the end.

Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024

wonderful twist at the end. Makes all that grief even more believeable. 

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Posted in Dad's poet society

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in other words, we don't know

Posted on Wed, 03 Apr 2024

in other words, we don't know what we're talking about. 

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Posted in Black Hole

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there is something primal in

Posted on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

there is something primal in drums and song. 

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Posted in Passion Of The Drums

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this sounds very like what

Posted on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

this sounds very like what might have been. 

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Posted in Spitting image

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Thomas Piketty states it

Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2024

Thomas Piketty states it quite simply. When the rate of return for those with money (Capital) is greater than the rate of  economic growth (virtually zero) then like a giant snowball rolling downhill, Capital will accummulate an every increasing...

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Posted in Empty Homes

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emm, nearly but 73 cm too far

Posted on Wed, 27 Mar 2024

emm, nearly but 73 cm too far. 

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Posted in When Did Our World Become SO Complicated? Part Two.

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sounds round about right. 

Posted on Sat, 23 Mar 2024

sounds round about right. 

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Posted in Is this the real life?

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a circus act has always the

Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

a circus act has always the element of swan song as you show.  

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Posted in Swan Song

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