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I have 1154 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2135772 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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The Little Lady

I think I deserved a little whisky and water to help me through the interviews. We’d agency doing the cleaning, but I’d told my wife it would be...
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Windfall.

We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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Missed You.

My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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Poem of the week

Tilly cut loose from the day

Tilly cut loose from the day Brightness like a red balloon Utterances dumbstruck with gravity Details don’t matter Holding onto her giggling A...
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Uncle John's Popemobile.

Black specks were moving on the stacked plates of uneaten leftovers and the casual smears of a man that had tried to tidy up. Casualties lay on the...
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1560 of my comments have received 1592 Great Feedback votes

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love is in the details.

Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024

love is in the details. Wonderful. 

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Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)

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Ariel has wings, but I'm not

Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2024

Ariel has wings, but I'm not so sure she can play minature golf. 

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Posted in The Last Night Chapter 17 A Dirt Path

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Wonderful storytelling. The

Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2024

Wonderful storytelling. The sense of truth lies within. 

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Posted in Can you play with madness?

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wonderfully evocative. A real

Posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2024

wonderfully evocative. A real Christmas treat (although it doesn't have to be Christmas). 

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Posted in Tom Tom Turnaround (7) (i)

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wonderful writing. We do know

Posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2024

wonderful writing. We do know. We do know. 

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Posted in Tom Tom Turnaround (7) (ii)

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I'm with Lennon and Yoko on

Posted on Thu, 12 Dec 2024

I'm with Lennon and Yoko on that one. 'No more war'. Siss too. 

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Posted in The Last Night Chapter 16 A Beautiful Landing

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If it wasn't ghosts, it might

Posted on Thu, 12 Dec 2024

If it wasn't ghosts, it might have been Thatcher or ghostly Americans, even their ghosts are fat (as they shoud be). 

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Posted in Eight Out of Ten Bulgarians

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cheers ray, you too, but I'm

Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2024

cheers ray, you too, but I'm on earth, you've reached for the stars. 

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Posted in what comes after Christmas.

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there's bit of light and

Posted on Sat, 07 Dec 2024

there's bit of light and darkness too in this jenny. Or maybe that's just me 

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Posted in Stormy Night Of Passion

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Ah, I remember Kirk, James T.

Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2024

Ah, I remember Kirk, James T. And Spock too. Earth studies. Now that might be useful for later. 

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Posted in The Last Night Chapter 15 The Archaeologist

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