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I have 1179 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2516897 times and 1205 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Cherry

standing in the queue to order a word kebab at my local takeaway

What would you like? Voice of division Voice of derision Vice setting tone Garnish with that? Waiting for a letter to arrive Swirly bluebottle battle...
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Cherry

huts 5 (rewrite)

The office is too warm. I sit squelched and sweating under the pall of Wullie the Poles’s Senoir Service , nose buried in files, eyes shifting...

doodles

Little bit thing lying in your sprawl Crying as if the world will end It might It might This very night But don’t you bite Settle on a secret There’s...
Cherry

in a better place

You stop thinking after a time Rubbery words from books not read Answers to life’s geography Warped fizzing can of physiology Keep it under you hate...

huts 4 (rewrite)

Heebie-jeebies, I can’t sit still to read through the file on Norean Kileen. Try not to be too obvious. I spy on her as she waltzes down the corridor...

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1650 of my comments have received 1682 Great Feedback votes

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interesting, I was just

Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2015

interesting, I was just thinking about something similiar (but different). How each generation weighs time. Trees by their weight of leaves offers the obivious analogy, are we so different? 

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Posted in My Father's House

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the sunset must have invaded

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

the sunset must have invaded the sky an orange.' I know what you mean, [the sun makes the sky glow orange] a little more care and you'll be right up there. 

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Posted in Running on Desire - The Boat

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there's a kind of coming back

Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015

there's a kind of coming back I like, an echo of the past and present, the begining and end. 

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Posted in The sound of my love

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you carry on too Jeanne we

Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015

you carry on too Jeanne we just muck in and write as we do. 

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Posted in dread-nought

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feels real. a headache that

Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2015

feels real. a headache that binds all thoughts to hurry up and pass or let me die.  

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Posted in Migraine

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Reminded me a bit of Stephen

Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2015

Reminded me a bit of Stephen King (Stand by Me and The Tommyknockers) it's certainly got that otherness that affects dreams and memory and turns a body. I don't think 'no one' needs a hypen. And I'm not sure about choosing 'initiates'. I love the...

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Posted in Relic

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thanks vera and littlebit. I

Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015

thanks vera and littlebit. I acutally forgot I wrote this. I guess that photo of the wee boy in the sand, like the one in MyLi, of a little girl burning in Vietnam, makes you think, just a splurge of sound, on paper, no real sense. What makes me...

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Posted in dread-nought

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I suppose getting it down on

Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2015

I suppose getting it down on 'paper' might help? 

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Posted in Love Journal #1 Damage Control

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slight breeze and a hint of

Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2015

slight breeze and a hint of danger in a leisurely lie. 

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Posted in Thoughts on a Rooftop

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thanks Rob, I'd guess I'm

Posted on Mon, 20 Jul 2015

thanks Rob, I'd guess I'm held in such esteem because I've been here longest. I must admit to writing as much rubbish as the next man (or woman), but I'd also guess I've lucked in that it's the first you've read and you like it so much....

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Posted in little Hiroshima in my head

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