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I have 1157 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2198757 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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Grimms51

Bruno is hanging about waiting for Tony when he comes out of the office. ‘An ambulance came and took Hunter away,’ he explains. ‘Hunter swears he’s...
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Grimms50

Tony places the fork carefully back down on the table, beside the butter dish. Clutching his eye, a colourful arabesque, milky with red veins, half-...
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Pick of the Month

Grimms49

Tony shares a room at the top of the stairs with Bruno. ‘He’s a bed-wetter,’ whispers Julie. ‘We may get him up during the night to take him to the...
Cherry

Grimms48

Rab cashes his Giro the next day and agrees to meet Jaz and the Tash back in the pub. Jaz sits waiting, nursing a warm pint, the Tash beside him...
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Grimms47

Outside the snooker club, a black Hackney cab across the road lets somebody off. Jaz pulls his collar up against drizzling rain, decides since he’s...

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1569 of my comments have received 1601 Great Feedback votes

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I guessed that Harrison would

Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020

I guessed that Harrison would become Grant. Good start to the body-swap story genre (if such a genre exists?)

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Posted in "Past and Present" Chapter 1

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good story. I don't think you

Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020

good story. I don't think you need to reiterate about the cancer being in the middle of Jeff's stomach. 

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Posted in I Can Never Say Sorry…

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yes - and moe. But we can but

Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2020

yes - and moe. But we can but try to define it. 

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Posted in What is Love?

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hail, spring indeed. 

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020

hail, spring indeed. 

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Posted in This year's walk...(08)

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he boredom when cleaning

Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2020

he boredom when cleaning rooms today was unfucking real. It was driving him potty. My brain is dying. Felt like it’s being inflated with air. 

change in third-person voice to 'My' first-person voice. 

new-age wanker. 

indeed...

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Posted in The DJs Who Turn into Swans

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for perhaps the first time,

Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2020

for perhaps the first time, the younger generation can no longer expect to have a better life than their parents. That's the saddest part. As you mention, the rich had it easy. They still do. The poor had bleak and short lives, or so we would...

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Posted in Living In Another Era.

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there's hope for us all

Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2020

there's hope for us all -eventually. 

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Posted in The Interviewee (2045)

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thnaks delibetely ev and

Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2020

thnaks delibetely ev and everyone else who vetured in. Let's get out there and write (there should be some dramatic music here).  

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Posted in before she could not

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a feast for the eyes, but

Posted on Sun, 24 May 2020

a feast for the eyes, but there's morality here buried in mouth-watering fruit. Adam and Eve it. 

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Posted in There is a Still Life in the Old Dog Yet

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gravity is not an apple. yeh,

Posted on Sat, 23 May 2020

gravity is not an apple. yeh, I like that aand this. 

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Posted in How To Be Authentic

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