celticman
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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2275370 times
and 1182 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1594 of my 15,228 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1627 votes
My stories
the big check up
Heart - the proper place to start Too snug to be riled Liver- there’s the boy Loved fatty food and all things crude Kidneys - pissed away Indelible...
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Countdown
Countdown When Helen got the telephone call that her Da was dead she was curled up on one end of the couch watching Countdown, painting her toenails...
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Waiting
Fog clouds and claws Cling-things of the flesh Earth a smoking pit Mountains made to fit Unmanable things as sea Albino plants Fallen lies of the...
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strides
Is it fun being impossibly young? Am I too old to care What you wear? What I wear Without a care? T-shirts, chains, all a dazzle. Soulboys’ greasy...
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In Closing
Years roll down your face – historic Hysterical Pack a paunch to your gut A hundred billion neurons die Now you know why Diet You what-the-fuck...
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the afforntery of that Clare,
Posted on Mon, 04 Jan 2016
the afforntery of that Clare, watch out for the creak of the wardrobe and soon she'll no be there. I like this.
Read full commentPosted in The Wardrobe
Vietnamese with a waiting [t
Posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015
Vietnamese with a waiting [t]Taxi driver
he [w]Winced.
characterisation and descriptive prose are great.
Read full commentPosted in The March of the Dragons Chapter 2 (minus the last paragraph due to word count).
the world is a friendlier
Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015
the world is a friendlier place when we smile.
Read full commentPosted in Sometimes...
in case they hurt themselves,
Posted on Sun, 20 Dec 2015
in case they hurt themselves, you see, I see clearly, but what can you do when there's only me and you?
Read full commentPosted in Glass is a Supercooled Liquid
good ending in a sickish sort
Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2015
good ending in a sickish sort of way, sums the story up well. I can't say I've noticed anything like that in my local forays through the park, but I guess as it's always pissing down that helps dampen people's rogering forays.
Read full commentPosted in the shared park
I didn't think he was very
Posted on Sat, 21 Nov 2015
I didn't think he was very funny. I'll rephrase that, he wasn't funny, but I didn't think you got jailed for it. That worries me. I'm packing my cardigans into a bag now. Ready to flee to England where there's a lot of funny folk. Just another...
Read full commentPosted in Plot without a story
the mastery of time seems to
Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2015
the mastery of time seems to be your line. I guess Switzerland isn't much of a date, especially if you've left life too late, but what wonderful recall, it's a lesson to us all.
Read full commentPosted in 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
time spins and
Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015
time spins and circumnavigates and I guess we place our bet of whose to blame on the table, never thinking our number will come up.
Read full commentPosted in oot ma heed.
panic indeed. simple sentence
Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2015
panic indeed. simple sentence are good, but look for a bit more variety.
Read full commentPosted in Panic Room
check on your Mum as a name
Posted on Mon, 02 Nov 2015
check on your Mum as a name and as a description (eg my mum). I'm not sure how jaggy stones catch elbows (too high up the body) in opening paragraph. That apart. The tone is just right. Possible story of the week. Gets my vote.
Read full commentPosted in Fly like Superman
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