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I have 212 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 198581 times
and 163 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2 of my 131 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2 votes
My stories
Praying to St Lou Reed
Lou Reed snarls at the opening syllables of beseechment, the skinny boy's prayer. Nobody told the boy to beware this saint. 'You only came to me...
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Arctic Coats
We will wear our arctic coats for one last time, climbing to the top of the world that is all white and each direction is south. Winter forever...
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Scotch Measure (Part One)
Old men, see, when I was young, were different men. Carved like figureheads of fright, creatures of night, worse than the dead, some of them. Auld...
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Orkil the Poet On His Landing In Skye
Strange the ways of sea going men upon landing, hopes sharp as steel we brought to the natives, fierce the feeling on new land to win beneath our...
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Travelling In Silence (Train Journey 2013)
My son asks me to speak more. I don’t. In the Quiet Coach I talk with a professional poet. A woman angrily tells us speaking is not allowed there.
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