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I have 1156 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2175244 times and 1172 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1567 of my 15,073 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1599 votes

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Grimms 80

By celticman on Wed, 19 Jul 2017

‘What’s been the crack then?’ Del stands at the front door, a cigarette jammed between his lips. A clean white open-necked shirt sleeves contrast...

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Certificate 15

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the independent cluase

By celticman on Wed, 12 Jul 2017

Head filled with different kinds of wrongness rightness and onscreen brightness squared aye by large numbers two points resistance to three points...

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Grimms 79

By celticman on Tue, 11 Jul 2017

Tony’s social worker, Marie, arrives on an official visit. She waits for him in the office. Dayshift-staff circle around, Julie flustered, leaves her...

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Grimms 78

By celticman on Sat, 08 Jul 2017

Fag smoke drifts above Pizza Face’s head. His is a frightened silence amid bickering conversation and accusations of neglect. The last of the sun...

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Certificate 18

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Grimms77

By celticman on Thu, 06 Jul 2017

Junior hurries home. Tired and hungry, his hair sun-washed and lighter than his brothers’, he finds virtue in manual labour, skin lightly tanned and...

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1567 of my comments have received 1599 Great Feedback votes

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It's a cat's life, a bit like

Posted on Sun, 25 Apr 2021

It's a cat's life, a bit like a dog's life, but smarter. keep it going.

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Posted in "Willow's Tail" 4

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I've no knowledge of music

Posted on Wed, 07 Apr 2021

I've no knowledge of music but have heard the name Stravnsky and I might even have heard riot of spring. As your poem shows, listening to music is classless. We all appreciate beauty, but in different ways.

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Posted in The Riot of Spring (Pictures of Pagan Russia 1913)

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thanks insert, you don't miss

Posted on Sat, 03 Apr 2021

thanks insert, you don't miss much, apart from writing...get to it.

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Posted in Sooz

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I'm not sure James II thought

Posted on Fri, 02 Apr 2021

I'm not sure James II thought it silly to embrace Cathlicism. He was Catholic. I guess we can thing it silly now, but with tens of thousands of life lost, well it gave us William of Orange and changed history.

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Posted in Thank God It's Good Friday! (and April Fools) By Alfred N.Muggins

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you're always a breath of

Posted on Sat, 27 Mar 2021

you're always a breath of fresh air, Jenny.

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Posted in Pastiche

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I'm not a dog or cat person,

Posted on Sun, 21 Mar 2021

I'm not a dog or cat person, but my partner is. Our current cat, which we've had for a few years, is sick. It was a stray that found its way to our back door a few years ago. She did the usual stuff of putting out milk and food for it. Then you...

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Posted in "The Canines of My Life"

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