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I have 1156 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2174291 times and 1172 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1567 of my 15,071 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1599 votes

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Grimms45

By celticman on Wed, 22 Mar 2017

The smelly cupboard is the ideal place to hide the guns until Jaz can find somewhere better. He’s thinking ahead of ripping up floorboards and...
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Grimms 44

By celticman on Tue, 21 Mar 2017

Jaz sprawls on the couch, a Woodbine in his hand and has a few nips of whisky and sparks a can, leaving it at his feet. Angela, cross-legged in the...
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Cherry

Grimms43

By celticman on Sat, 18 Mar 2017

On the second landing, Jaz can’t wait. He nips into the cludgie and pulls the door over, stands leaning, left hand splayed against peeling paint of...
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grimms42

By celticman on Fri, 17 Mar 2017

At 11.45 am three masked men burst through the door of the Linen Bank on Dunbarton Road, stocking masks over their faces. ‘This is a stick up,’...
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Cherry

grimms41

By celticman on Thu, 16 Mar 2017

Tony remembers a parade of uniforms and much mumbling just outside of hearing. He forgets who has come or who had gone. Memories and dreams mixed up...
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1567 of my comments have received 1599 Great Feedback votes

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yeh, I get it, but keep it to

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

yeh, I get it, but keep it to yourself sort of story. The morally righteous are never wrong, Nor do they fade away (unfortuately). great story. 

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Posted in How Long Can You Stew For, Before You Fall Apart?

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slight jump at 'burn me right

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020

slight jump at 'burn me right through' (burns right through). just a thought. I don't often have them. 

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Posted in Phantoms

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I'm sure Triigger told Boycey

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020

I'm sure Triigger told Boycey, who told someone I know that the virus was engineered. I'm not sure the reasoning for this, who exactly gains from this? I'm sure it's a James Bond type villain who strokes a cat and has a cunning plan. 

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Posted in Mother's Day With A Difference.

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sad, yet we reember beyond

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

sad, yet we reember beyond the whys and wherefores. 

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Posted in He Knew

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if we can transmit love, then

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

if we can transmit love, then all is not lost. 

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Posted in Deimos

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I guess you covered all the

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

I guess you covered all the bases, but mother's know best and what would your mother say? 

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Posted in Happy Mother's Day

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all of us would-be writers in

Posted on Fri, 20 Mar 2020

all of us would-be writers in our garrets speakig in cliches and thinking the world will end and saying, 'I told you so?' where are we now? 

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Posted in Unprecedented

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sun and crocodiles, what more

Posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2016

sun and crocodiles, what more could a story need? 

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Posted in Mwambeshi Memories

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poets know how to wait.

Posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2020

poets know how to wait. Sometimes a word's not too great. Then our foolishness does abate. Stanzas await. 

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Posted in To wait

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thanks for reading, your

Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020

thanks for reading, your praise is bountiful (oh, dear-sorry). 

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Posted in The Bountiful

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