celticman
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I have 1156 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2169909 times
and 1171 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1566 of my 15,074 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1598 votes
My stories
Bible John
‘Why do they call you Bible John?’ I ask. ‘They’re just takin the cunt,’ he says. Then apologises a few seconds later for his language. I was given...
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poppy's last shout
Cast adrift. Poppy’s single room in the hospital annex is sparse and milky as a bone. The umbilical cord of the machine by her bed works almost...
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The big Malky
Frank took two days to hitchhike down to London. It was all new. A night sleeping in a plastic bin bag sheltering outside a Tube station, with what...
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snap
You didn’t need to be a fortune teller to work out what Granda was thinking. Eyes windows of the soul, but eyebrows garbed like two grey squirrel...
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Rambling
Rambled away – weather grey No road and mud suckled Muckle on Hold my coat aloft Breezed away into the day Hills that hug Jag-eyed vision of...
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yep, I'm with Charles Schultz
Posted on Sun, 21 Sep 2014
yep, I'm with Charles Schultz, although, of course, my family never had a car, because only rich folk did, but hey, it's a sunny day. I liked this.
Read full commentPosted in Don't Ask
yeh, I get it, but someone
Posted on Sat, 13 Sep 2014
yeh, I get it, but someone stole it off me.
It's something the Asian students do TO WORN...think you missed out a few words here.
great story. true to life (and I'm not a great fan of Virginia Woolf either).
Read full commentPosted in I have no sympathy
No one is stopping you. Write
Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2014
No one is stopping you. Write and be wonderful.
Read full commentPosted in I Hate Being 19!
Nothing is something and this
Posted on Thu, 04 Sep 2014
Nothing is something and this is dazzling.
Read full commentPosted in After Death
Geoff seemed like one of the
Posted on Wed, 20 Aug 2014
Geoff seemed like one of the good guys. Yet he get's done over as a bad guy. Great volte and twist at the end. Great story.
Read full commentPosted in Four doors down
the rain, the clouds, the cry
Posted on Wed, 20 Aug 2014
the rain, the clouds, the cry of the children, a background noise dripping with melancholy. After the darkness there may be light, but the darkness remanis.
Read full commentPosted in After the flood
hard to get [h]old of
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2014
hard to get [h]old of
interesting, but needs split up into paragraphs. bit of a blob the way it's set out and likely to stop people from reading more, which would be a pity.
Read full commentPosted in No Man's land
Don't know why your shorten
Posted on Sun, 10 Aug 2014
Don't know why your shorten until to the more colloquial 'til in the last paragraph, a sudden colluquialism that doesn't quite gell.
Verm imaginative. I couldn't get grey man, but blue man, well, that set the tone.
Read full commentPosted in Shredding
humble and sad, but never bad
Posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2014
humble and sad, but never bad.
Read full commentPosted in Mistakes
I'm excited about what's
Posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2014
I'm excited about what's about to happen too.
Read full commentPosted in Out of Control-5
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