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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2390560 times
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1626 of my 15,427 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1656 votes
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the war to end all wars
In a world of mud, colour was a low deceit and became his eyes, his legs and his feet tapping out messages to his body in the trenches. Bright...
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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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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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we're all trying to get on to
Posted on Sun, 28 Oct 2018
we're all trying to get on to a better path. Keep writing.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (short extract 3)
rainbows are majestic, but
Posted on Sun, 28 Oct 2018
rainbows are majestic, but you need to be looking up. You were and are.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (short extract 3)
conspiracy theories are great
Posted on Fri, 26 Oct 2018
conspiracy theories are great for uniting people. when common sense tells you soomething you've got to look again, but the lies people tell themselves are the most insidious of all. If we turn around the popular jib we use with politicians, 'why...
Read full commentPosted in Is This True?
anywhere is good, somewhere
Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018
anywhere is good, somewhere is better, you've taken us somewhere special.
Read full commentPosted in Out of Season
slipped, like an oyster, I
Posted on Wed, 24 Oct 2018
slipped, like an oyster, I like that.
Read full commentPosted in Weep Till Forever
captivating and carries the
Posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2018
captivating and carries the glory of the world.
Read full commentPosted in clues
nice one, and finished with a
Posted on Thu, 18 Oct 2018
nice one, and finished with a question. Did the durnk lady make the plane? Answers on a postcard.
Read full commentPosted in First Impressions
the inner child sometimes
Posted on Sun, 30 Sep 2018
the inner child sometimes gets lost or forgotten. we all need a little hand.
Read full commentPosted in Inner Child
the centre cannot hold
Posted on Sat, 13 Oct 2018
the centre cannot hold
Read full commentPosted in Here the Gyres rest
a cat has more than nine
Posted on Thu, 11 Oct 2018
a cat has more than nine lives. I'm glad you're counting.
Read full commentPosted in Moses, The Spider Slayer!
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