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I have 1156 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2169392 times and 1170 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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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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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Sean Happens 12

Dad staggered into the kitchen like his legs were encased in iron struts. He held out a primitive crossbow. A kind of spike in the narrow crosspiece...
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Sisters.

I didn’t know I had a sister until it was too late. Snow muffled sound and the weight of the outside world. We didn’t have money for the electricity...
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Memento Mori

You’re frightened by time Last frolics of fading white lies Risky, holding facts You drop them from your dry lips Search for them on the floor...

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1566 of my comments have received 1598 Great Feedback votes

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Steve's not a hero. He just

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2017

Steve's not a hero. He just likes stabbing you in the stomach. He picks his victims well in advance by hanging around hip-replacement wards. 

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Posted in Now I'm Bionic Second Part

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Grandad smiled[,] nodding

Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2015

Grandad smiled[,] nodding

Occasionally he pause[d] bit muddled here as you've got Jake interrupting himself and taking over the conversation with himself, but you mean he takes over the convesation with Toby...

Brilliant. characters...

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Posted in Jake Mutant - Chapter Three

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honesty helps with understand

Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2015

honesty helps with understand and with understanding we learn that we are all human, all falliable and all unique in our wrongness which makes it alright. Peace be with you. 

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Posted in Byrd Jones, Teacher and Grandfather

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words can be wonderous

Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2015

words can be wonderous visions, but peel back house and home and there is there was and ever shall be that moment when beauty arises. 

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Posted in Lace Wings

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I'm sure there's a metaphor

Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2014

I'm sure there's a metaphor here. Spit it out.

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Posted in Spit Out the Bugs in Your Mouth

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Kicked up a gear. Her turning

Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2014

Kicked up a gear. Her turning on him is good, but maybe express some of the doubts about Ian earlier. A kind of layering effect. His violence towards her is a good way of keeping it real.

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Posted in Ch26: Stolen July 12th part 2

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silence, is often a pause

Posted on Sat, 31 May 2014

silence, is often a pause before the encore.

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Posted in War of Sounds

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the murdered become murderers

Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025

the murdered become murderers, victims of genoice, commit genocide. Nothing good to report. But how can we stay silent? 

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Posted in hiding in plain site

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illusion is allusion. That's

Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025

illusion is allusion. That's the way memory work. Yeh! 

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Posted in Portal

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I sense an ending. Not that I

Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025

I sense an ending. Not that I've got any sense to spare. I've got even less emotional range than a robot, but, of course, more than a Tory, or god help us, a Trumpet. 

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Posted in Parcel for You - Part 49

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