celticman

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I have 1157 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2199125 times and 1175 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1569 of my 15,098 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1601 votes

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'Go'

You belong to the normal generation. Everything clear-cut and solvable. Climate change stabilised. No more poverty. Hunger eradicated. The gap...
Cherry

Grimms72

Jaz ganders out the kitchen window and sees Pizza Face playing outside, kicking a ball against the bins. ‘Hi,’ he calls through to Angela, but it’s...
Cherry

don't look down

don’t look down— poor people who work for little— and expect little more— don’t look down— refuge bees like you and—and—and shrinking away to god...
Cherry

Grimms71

A couple of days pass, then a week, in which Jaz does little more than alternate between pubs and empty glasses follow him. Maggie Scott’s for...
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Grimms 70

Jaz figures he’ll need to take driving lessons, not right away, but sometimes soon. He could buy one of those fancy Jaguar cars now. Pay cash. He’s...

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1569 of my comments have received 1601 Great Feedback votes

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I'm with farg with regard to

Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2021

I'm with farg with regard to Dire Stratis. 

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Posted in Take it Back

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funnily enough was talking to

Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2021

funnily enough was talking to my mate about that today, Jenny, but it was the Erskine Bridge we were talking about. 

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Posted in Silent Lament

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hearts and souls carried like

Posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2021

hearts and souls carried like old sums into this next line- poetry. 

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Posted in Mehtab Bagh (Moonlight Garden)

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 We’d been to my parents

Posted on Sat, 23 Jan 2021

 We’d been to my parents [parent's]

wonderful story telling, great ending and a story that sticks. 

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Posted in Snow Day

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a vision I can recognise. 

Posted on Sat, 23 Jan 2021

a vision I can recognise. 

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Posted in Wootton Village

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sea spirit guides us all, not

Posted on Fri, 22 Jan 2021

sea spirit guides us all, not all, but you, certainly. 

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Posted in To a Lone Sailor

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magically evoked, if we

Posted on Fri, 15 Jan 2021

magically evoked, if we turned into a tree what bitter fruits would we? 

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Posted in Apple Tree

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we are indeed on the edge of

Posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2021

we are indeed on the edge of colour, especially as we get older. 

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Posted in The Edge of Colour

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this is a beautiful story. I

Posted on Sat, 09 Jan 2021

this is a beautiful story. I said that the last time and I echo it here. brilliant 

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Posted in Last Things

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always check where you're

Posted on Thu, 07 Jan 2021

always check where you're being kidnapped to insert. Yes. It features in every story so far. 

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Posted in Tam McSwiggan

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