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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2375651 times
and 1197 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1623 of my 15,409 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1657 votes
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Last Call
She clumped up the middle of Singers Road ignoring the pavements, damp and slippy with the mush of fallen leaves darkening pools against the wire...
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see you later alligator
We know what we know. We watched the world grow. And yet! And yet! There is that debt. There is that debt. Knowing doubts, bend us true. We know what...
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By Dickens
‘Another one to see you Doctor,’ said the receptionist, her droll tone on the phone, giving me adequate warning. ‘A Mr McDermid.’ Shuffled feet,...
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huts second week, second day (first draft)
Our first formal class, critical theory in mental handicap nursing, takes place in the defunct maternity ward, in the old hospital. High ceilings,...
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huts second week (first draft)
Monday is Monday in anybody’s language. Black and wet outside and our miserable Monday weather seeps inside and ages me. I hunker down, bury hands...
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yeh, I sometimes imagine
Posted on Tue, 02 Aug 2016
yeh, I sometimes imagine places are like batteries or reservoirs, holding onto energy.
Read full commentPosted in The Cobbe house iv Aftermath
good luck with this ladylily.
Posted on Sun, 31 Jul 2016
good luck with this ladylily.
Read full commentPosted in Bermondsey to Basra Battlefronts.
I'm a bit dense too seashore.
Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2016
I'm a bit dense too seashore. clumsy, a form of justification, almost a cliche, a throwway liine that comes before, Allahu Akbar and throws away lives. I've actually convinced myself that's what I meant, whiich is quite impressive for me.
Read full commentPosted in Tribe
gets you on the rebound.
Posted on Thu, 21 Jul 2016
gets you on the rebound. There's a jump in the point of view from the narrator to that of the dogs watching him, in the first parargraph. It's a forecful imaged. Just meat. But incongrouus.
Read full commentPosted in Dogs
Brilliant, but you gallop to
Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016
Brilliant, but you gallop to the ending.
Read full commentPosted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)
we're all weak and fragile.
Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2016
we're all weak and fragile. That is our strength.
Read full commentPosted in OverPowered
I'm not even as simple as I
Posted on Tue, 28 Jun 2016
I'm not even as simple as I think.
Read full commentPosted in Outery (Salt of the Earth)
if life is a classroom I'm in
Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2016
if life is a classroom I'm in the wrong school.
Read full commentPosted in Classroom
in a circle, in a cycle, a
Posted on Sat, 25 Jun 2016
in a circle, in a cycle, a controlled storm of writing.
Read full commentPosted in The First Step
this is good, really good,
Posted on Wed, 15 Jun 2016
this is good, really good, but could be far better if you broke the three seperate narratives into seperate storylines of six, thirteen and eighteen. Slow down time. It's got an edge about it, which I like.
Read full commentPosted in I didn't want to do it
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