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I have 1154 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2135753 times and 1168 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1560 of my 15,046 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1592 votes

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run-of-the-mill sexual assault.

I guess it was a classic run-of-the-mill sexual assault. I hadn’t thought about it in a long while. Until one of my wife’s friends said something,...
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True Love

God, as I knew, was very unforgiving. Most folk think of prophets as old guys with long beards. She said cheerio to half the people in the room. That...
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Shame (The Jeremy Kyle Show July 4, 2005, to May 10, 2019).

Sometimes you forgot How odd you were And you smiled at a child She laughed and jumped in her straps She was too wee Had not yet learned how to...
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Cherry

Sean Happens 14

Mr Dill wiggled his eyebrows. ‘A hole didn’t use to be a place where you took money out of…It could have been much more painful than that.’ ‘Could...
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Cherry

Sean Happens 13

Miss Dill went to run the bath. She sat smoking on the on edge of the tub, dipping her fingers in to the water to test the temperature. Mr Martin...

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1560 of my comments have received 1592 Great Feedback votes

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It is a heavy burden your

Posted on Wed, 14 Apr 2021

It is a heavy burden your words carry with grace. 

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Posted in Setting Sons

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I didn't like my dad. You

Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021

I didn't like my dad. You always get that assertion dressed as a question, aye, but you must have loved him? No. The strange thing is every year that passes I get more like him. This too will pass is the obvious piece of advice. But there's no...

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Posted in How do you forgive a parent?

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to teach them a  lesson.. Yeh

Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2020

to teach them a  lesson.. Yeh, that about sums up genocide. 

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Posted in Pins (6)

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lovely. words that bewitch.

Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020

lovely. words that bewitch. images that travel. wisdom in poetic form. 

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Posted in I Want To Tell You Things

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I did read a couple of posts

Posted on Wed, 25 Mar 2020

I did read a couple of posts about Charles and Camilla. And a story in The Guardian (so it must be true) that they didn't jump any hospital queues. They are 71 and 72. I almost feel sorry for the future king and his consort. It wasn't that long...

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Posted in Just Put Me In The Fridge

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oh, well, as long as you don

Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2019

oh, well, as long as you don't talk about politics...

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Posted in The Worst

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children's language is a

Posted on Sun, 28 Jul 2019

children's language is a thing of joy. 

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Posted in West Wales

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I'm a great friend of the

Posted on Wed, 15 May 2019

I'm a great friend of the potato, humble potato, hot potato, mashed potato. swanny potato. 

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Posted in The Identity of the Potato and the Swan

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you reap what you sow, if it

Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2019

you reap what you sow, if it were only so. The world would be so much better But as we can see, all people in poverty would agree. Those of wealth and no little stealth. What would they say, but life's weather made me that way. 

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Posted in The Three Fields of You

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well, I thnk you handled the

Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018

well, I thnk you handled the situation very humanely and if that's normal for people with Aspereger's then I'd like more people to be diagnosed. 

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Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (Push)

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