Exmouth - It's the South West's Best Kept Secret

By Ray Schaufeld

Stories, poetry and opinion pieces set in my hometown.

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I love the virginal power of Rosemary Wilkinson

By Ray Schaufeld on Tue, 17 Sep 2013

I love the virginal power of Rosemary Wilkinson, lifelong daughter of Exmouth recently retired from office work. Louts who mock her grey didacticism...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate 15

Lyric

By Ray Schaufeld on Thu, 27 Nov 2014

An old labourer Entered by Dionysus, His sap rising, Plucked his strings And sang. His clothes were shabby and his hair unkempt His voice sometimes...
Spiritual
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

Rosemary's Carriage Clock

By Ray Schaufeld on Sun, 15 Sep 2013

They had not let her go early. But at a quarter-to-five, Emma her line manager with her customary in-yer-face niceness and right-girls-I'm-in-charge...
Humour
Story
Certificate U
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

Shifting Sands

By Ray Schaufeld on Mon, 19 Mar 2018

The ebb the flow, the stay the go upon the shifting sands The ebb the flow the yes the no the water and the land I blew in on an August wind and some...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Va Va Voom

By Ray Schaufeld on Fri, 31 Dec 2021

Written in first lockdown, approx 250 words
Non-fiction
Certificate PG
2 likes
Gold cherry

Charity Shop Girls

By Ray Schaufeld on Tue, 04 Jan 2022

None of us born in this seaside town Laura and Moyra who work here Claire the manager who works when she's well Ann and I who rummage. We talk -...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate PG
2 likes
Cherry

The Screen Within - A Tale of the Unexpected

By Ray Schaufeld on Mon, 16 Feb 2015

Woke up this morning, usual moves. Cleaning the cinema before the doors open, my one surprise is what I find. That pair of black ladies knickers on...
Surreal
Miscellaneous
Story
Certificate 15

Beacon Vaults Exmouth

By Ray Schaufeld on Fri, 23 Aug 2013

At the jam sesh at the vaults on wedsnay night were pete and pete and rach and tim and chris. Pete piped and fluted, hippy pete guitarred and tim and...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Drugs - where's the harm?

By Ray Schaufeld on Mon, 18 Apr 2022

'Drugs are poisons that can have a pleasant effect' Alternative London 1974
Unclassified
Other
Certificate 15
1 likes

Smell our fish

By Ray Schaufeld on Sat, 27 Aug 2022

Exmouth for visitors Do not have ants in your pants Where to? We take our time Here Do you see us? Hear us Feel our underwaters We show our colours...
Travel
Poem
Certificate U