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I have 292 stories published in
18 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 385738 times
and 120 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Joe
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Patterns
When we mop floors, all sorts of complex emotions occur: what has our life become and why do things move in circles and this moment pretty much sums it up, this pretty much says it all.
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- 1080 reads
A gentle novel in twelve paragraphs
Call me Doug. Not Douglas. Call me. Look me up. Combatting xenophobia. They wear speaker cones for hats in China. They eat rice with their hands like a JCB shifts dirt into a skip. They play some snooker too, to feed their families.
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- 1171 reads
Ghazal 13
You off-shore, you wishbone, oh sleepy Gestapo. The tide was against us when you suggested a dip. Oh slipstream, oh yielding, oh off-duty lifeguard. I expected the stairwell to be the first place they'd look.
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- 970 reads
Seen from above
We are nothing like ants. First off, ants don't read magazines or suffer from depression. One ant is pretty much the same as the next ant. Even the ones with wings are not hugely distinct.
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- 881 reads
Black Diamond Heavies
They were only wearing Speedos and their facial hair was like a trail of gunpowder and their teeth said: IVE BEEN WAITING ALL MY LIFE
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- 1065 reads