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I have 1156 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2169393 times and 1170 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1566 of my 15,069 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1598 votes

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Sean Happens 6

Miss Dill and Mr Martin weren’t speaking to each other. It had continued over three or four days. They sent out for takeaways and binned the cups and...
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Sean Happens 5

Mum sent Sean up to the Potter house to apologise. When she’d heard what happened, ‘I’m black mortified,’ she’d said. She’d waved away the idea of...
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Sean Happens 4

Sean hugged himself in the back of his Uncle’s van. He squatted,shuggling sideways, breathing through his nose the musty smells. Human debris withthe...
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Sean Happens 3

Dad was sitting dozing outside the kitchen on a hard wooden seat. His balding head and ear were scarlet, and the sun had taken a blowtorch to his...
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Shug Happens 2

‘I want Shadow!’ Sean wailed and cried so much he choked like an asthmatic on his own last breath. Mum had to hold on to her son or Sean would...

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1566 of my comments have received 1598 Great Feedback votes

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Nobody likes to be taken for

Posted on Sat, 28 Dec 2024

Nobody likes to be taken for a succour. A bed is for life. 'bet[bed] speciality outlet'

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Posted in Home is where the mind is

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christmas carols let your

Posted on Fri, 27 Dec 2024

christmas carols let your festive season breath. 

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Posted in Carols at Midnight

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Christmas dinner can be

Posted on Wed, 25 Dec 2024

Christmas dinner can be tricky. Poor Pluto. Demoted to not even a Disney character now. 

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Posted in Planet Secret Santa

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Alfred may be confused but so

Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024

Alfred may be confused but so are tens of millons of others who grab land they say belonged to them before the Torah was written. As good a reason as any for mass murder. 

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Posted in Sojourn In Palestine (Welcome To Palestine!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 1

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Oh dear, Pat the pest and all

Posted on Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Oh dear, Pat the pest and all the rest. Of course, the voice that tells the trruth and says 'I hate you' is most worrying in an entertaining way. 

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Posted in Parcel for you - Part 44

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tucked indeed. My ambitions

Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024

tucked indeed. My ambitions once stretched to getting on a Christmas card too. 

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Posted in And what did the robin do then...?

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belief is important. innocene

Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024

belief is important. innocene more  so. bloody santa...I know...I know...I know. 

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Posted in Santa Pause

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that's all good news Jenny.

Posted on Sun, 22 Dec 2024

that's all good news Jenny. Have a lovely-- and mobile--Christmas. 

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Posted in Bright Side Of Life

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Women, I guess, are the

Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024

Women, I guess, are the bearers of light and chroniclers of darkness. 

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Posted in The Border Ballads

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a body shouldn't scare

Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024

a body shouldn't scare undertakers, but hey, resurrection isn't good for business, or is it? 

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Posted in It's My Party (Dead Reckoning series - Part 40)

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