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I have 105 stories published in 10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 40519 times and 96 of my stories have been cherry picked.
17 of my 158 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 16 votes

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Christopher Caldwell

I consider myself a family-oriented person even though I have chosen to live away from them including my two sons. I struggle with this self-imposed choice. I try to understand and express the often unseen threads that connect people, places, and moments in time. Brought up in the South East of England, to parents who are both half-Scottish, father half-Australian (whatever that means) and mother half-Burmese, I have lived in London, Barcelona and various places in France where I have now settled - in a small village on the banks of the Loire.

My stories

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The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked (IP)

"The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked" By Imogen Ida Nadir, Vanity Unfair London, 6:45 p.m. Yorick may have once been the court jester of Elsinore,...
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The Bus Stop (IP)

At Tottenham’s stop in the bright midday sun, Two old dames wait, and the bus hasn't come. One shakes her cane, her patience near snapped, Mutters "...

In Suspension

This week I gradually came to understand that I had become unwell. It's odd because it has coincided with the weather: the meteorological kind and...
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Meat Crimes - Scene 4

SCENE 4: INT. SHANK AND BRISKET'S APARTMENT - NIGHT Shank rummages through a box filled with mismatched clothes while Brisket stares nervously at the...
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Meat Crimes - Scene 3

SCENE 3: INT. POLICE STATION - CHIEF CONSTABLE WAGSTAFF'S OFFICE - DAY Chief Constable WAGSTAFF, a stern man with a perpetually furrowed brow, sits...

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17 of my comments have received 16 Great Feedback votes

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It was such an easy read.

Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2024

It was such an easy read. From the first sentence, I was in your world and got quite upset with the forgiving nature of your narrator and her terrible but probably all-too-common situation. I have always been freaked out by Punch and Judy, never...

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Posted in Cricks Crocodile

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Good collection of anatomic

Posted on Tue, 12 Nov 2024

Good collection of anatomic maladies. I'd quite like to see an anatomical model with all of those clearly demarcated. Perhaps including the vented spleen and weaver's bottom, blacksmith's lung and of course, one wouldn't want to miss out writer's...

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Posted in The Tale of the Housemaid’s Knee

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The media thrives on hate. I

Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024

The media thrives on hate. I see more and more people switching off the news, not owning a TV, not buying papers. I got very depressed last year, mostly to do with all the terrors in the Middle East but not limited to just that. I had a friend...

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Posted in I HATE YOU!

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I'm sure if there is a God She or He will understand.

Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024

Surely this God would practise what they preach and offer compassion, and love and turn the other cheek regardless of whatever sins may have been committed. Surely that's the point. No one is born evil and we are all a result of our environment....

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Posted in I HATE YOU!

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I love me a clootie dumpling.

Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2024

I love me a clootie dumpling.

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Posted in Breast, not Beast

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Thank you for your high

Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Thank you for your high praise.

I was actually drawing on Andrew Marvell's style. Crossed with a question from Steven Wright "Ok, so what's the speed of dark?". He has some good leftfield oneliners that leave you thinking such as "Why isn’...

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Posted in The Speed Of Dark // Eclipse

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Woman of the hour

Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024

I watched a 2023 film the other night called Woman of the Hour set in 70s LA. Though it's about a serial killer targeting women, it's actually a study on outdated attitudes towards women in general and unfortunately, there is evidence that these...

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Posted in You picked the wrong time to ask.

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A stark and painful image of

Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024

A stark and painful image of womanhood. You capture the cyclical nature of violence, loss, and survival with visceral language—“hollow-eyed blossoms of rape,” “orphans, widowers,” and the repeated “begetting” convey a history of suffering passed...

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Posted in You picked the wrong time to ask.

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Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's

Posted on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's earthy textures, but sparser and more sensual and questioning. "through truffled scurf" and "saltmist warped the wood" are just fantastic.

There's a songwriter I used to listen to called Joanna Newsom who had a...

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Posted in Figurehead

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Yes, fireworks were a key

Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Yes, fireworks were a key highlight for me too. And running around with sparklers but so scared of that hot metal. I was a '70s kid so a bit later - we had indoor fireworks too as a pre-show before the big ones outside. My dad more than anyone...

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Posted in Tom Tom Turnaround (2)

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