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I have 77 stories published in
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My stories have been read 80139 times
and 70 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2 of my 154 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2 votes
Ian McLachlan
"The function of the artist is to be the joker in the pack."
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My stories
Lacuna
Such a plush sunny morning the sky’s blue picked out like a favourite swatch warm shadows, starlings and flatmates who play their tape on a loop for...
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- 708 reads
15
‘What shall we call it?’ she yells from two seats back. ‘Shut up, stop joking.’ She laughs, pulls on her woollen jumper. ‘I got bare wasted last...
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- 727 reads
The Wrong
Standing slightly apart from the others, I marked him straight off as the probable winner: insouciant, relaxed, with a complexity about the angles of...
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The Fanatic
I'd had more than my share of knock-backs when I strode into the latest gastropub its baroque tables bathed by green lamps. Leather menu, in fine...
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Lines on a krater in the British Museum
Dionysus, panthers and ivy branches adorn my mixing bowl. Paint of alkali potash on shaped Attic clay, passed three times through the fire, this bell...
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- 303 reads