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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2138025 times
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1560 of my 15,046 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1592 votes
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granny's refrain
I disliked Mona Lisa when I saw a print of it in a library book, not for the usual childish reasons based on crappy artistic merit, or the adolescent...
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grammar schools and the select-22 committee
Protect our endangered rich With the quick fix Penalise the poor Let no election promise Be a palliative or cure For elective rhetoric Take a point...
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- 415 reads
Sleeping Beauty
He kisses Sleeping Beauty The word before the fall You’ve changed and change back And I don’t change at all ‘You’re a fucking wally,’ she said ‘Not...
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the last of summer
We are in the last mouths of summer Green gods’ sad subliminal dream Dripping with sorrow No thought of tomorrow Today, today, today Is all we can...
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tears were not enough
After the funeral, Davy nursed a lukewarm can of Skol lager and chose a quiet, empty corner of the church hall near the swing of the door and stink...
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I wanted to know more. Really
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
I wanted to know more. Really enjjoyed reading it.
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)
slides from metaphor to
Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2018
slides from metaphor to madness and evil with spring-heeled ease.
Read full commentPosted in Big Cat
yeh, captures that remebrance
Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018
yeh, captures that remebrance of things lost and people lost too in their own home and in their mind.
Read full commentPosted in Visiting Mom
amen to that and halleluiah
Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018
amen to that and halleluiah too because this is so true.
Read full commentPosted in Alternative Prayer of Remembrance, Easter 2018
you're mirroring Pirsig's
Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018
you're mirroring Pirsig's take in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Read full commentPosted in Mechanics & Artists
wonderfully perceptive
Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2018
wonderfully perceptive storytelling. Kayla Stella Nue rings true.
Read full commentPosted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part twelve)
bambi, but how much more
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
bambi, but how much more harrowing is the hundreds of millions of chickens and cattle that never experience daylight, in which a pen is their sun. A story well done.
Read full commentPosted in To Dance in the Shadows
memory is a lullaby.
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2018
memory is a lullaby.
Read full commentPosted in Stars Still Shine Brightly
nicely done, very visual and
Posted on Thu, 07 Dec 2017
nicely done, very visual and acoustic.
Read full commentPosted in Peeping at the Borrowed Plumes
Mark the might mouse is a bit
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2018
Mark the might mouse is a bit of a spellbinder. I hope he doesn't overdo it with the catnip.
Read full commentPosted in The Fairy Cats
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