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I have 212 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 203282 times
and 165 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Bring Back the King, But Find Him First
Some kings are not supposed to lie easily in death. Take Mary Queen of Scots. At first she was put to rest, if not ignominiously, then without full...
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Canmore - Who was Big Head?
The head that wears the crown has to be large. But what exactly does this mean - symbolically big, physically huge, an appellation with mystical...
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Balmerino Abbey Day
Around the river, walking the water lanes from where the car was left (better to tread lightly down to the remains of the monastery). All that...
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Auld Man
Auld Man, I trouble you with remembrance, now you’re sixty years dead. Green shillings on eyes have been robbed by otherworld rogues from where we...
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Murder at the Feast, The Treachery of Scone
Primary among the bedrock stories of the formation of Scotland is the legend that the Gaelic king Cináed mac Ailpín, or Kenneth mac Alpin, murdered a...
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