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I have 1174 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2377053 times and 1197 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1623 of my 15,413 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1657 votes

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supernova

‘Fuck me like you hate me.’ He did. If you lived long enough, perhaps you’d have learned to kiss sweet as candyfloss, and kept a sensible distance...
Gold cherry

old stock

Some nights when Charlie can’t sleep the past will enter his heart, a skeletal broken thing looking for home and he’ll hear the truth of his youth...
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I long for her to be Upstairs tucked in like me But not me Anybody but— – to know I’m doing OK Not mad Just be glad – When you turn off your tv...
Cherry

Huts Xish

After work my luck doesn’t change. On my way home I slide on a wet standing stones in the burn, and batter my knee off a submerged rock. I juggle...

new shoes from the Sally Army

I want I was I am Scratchin in a Sally Army that echoes like a tin can Drinkin the final day Gold star for being clean The obsession standoffish the...

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1623 of my comments have received 1657 Great Feedback votes

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a trumpet for a brother, a

Posted on Sun, 26 Feb 2017

a trumpet for a brother, a trumpet for a sister, my guess is your guess, is that the broom that sweeps may, indeed, sweep us all away. 

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Posted in Brocken Spectre

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I know lots of stories about

Posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2017

I know lots of stories about drinking and drunks, some funny, some sad, some funny and sad at the same time. How do we reach honesty? That's a different story, and one which I'm not quite sure how it ends. I think you've had a good crack at here...

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Posted in A familiar through-line

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I like that Phil. All writing

Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2017

I like that Phil. All writing is the Wizard of Oz pulling the curtain away. You know that because you do it too. 

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Posted in grimms31

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if you don't know if it's

Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017

if you don't know if it's fact or fiction, then that's a good measure. Not that it matters. We're all fictional creations. Life catches us all. Death,  last and forever. 

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Posted in Dave Swakeley is Dying

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two storey. (American

Posted on Sat, 11 Feb 2017

two storey. (American spelling story). Giro? seems more British than Russian. I guess there's no hyphen in bar top. You don't need top anyway. Bar is sufficient.  There's a jump between Putin drinknig and leaving that is muddled. 'Turning on old...

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Posted in Worse Than Death

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She aimed a finger at my head

Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017

She aimed a finger at my head, and slowly moved it forward until it rested on the gateway of my cursed recession.  ' Descriptively, you know what you mean and I know what you mean after I read on, but maybe recession as a lead into baldness is...

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Posted in CC 108: Daniel

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cheers Elsie, I guess the

Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017

cheers Elsie, I guess the house is like many others in which the man is king, the wive loyal servant, told what to think and what to do. 

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Posted in grimms16

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juxtaposition of life and

Posted on Sat, 07 Jan 2017

juxtaposition of life and death, aye. Makes you think. 

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Posted in Waters

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sounds a wee bit like Harry

Posted on Sun, 01 Jan 2017

sounds a wee bit like Harry Kane and a mix of Alex Ferguson and Bill Shankley as the manager. 

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Posted in The Loanee - A Promising Future

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christmas and new year number

Posted on Thu, 29 Dec 2016

christmas and new year number one, well done. 

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Posted in Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Mourning?

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