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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 517937 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1810 of my 5,633 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1861 votes

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"For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)

Some people are angry that Just Stop Oil threw coloured cornflour at Stonehenge. Because the structure is old? A symbol of how humans have survived...
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Pick of the Month

Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024

Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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at dusk today

light mourning lavender sheets sky and sea far pink coast recalls sunset white triangle sail heading out gulls fly, wings bright as full moon's disc...
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Poem of the week

October 2023

Shame : so hard to forget this soft word starting with a Sh! as of secrets, brushed under deep carpets and A in its middle, alphabet's beginning an...
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open your eyes!

bombing your moral high ground (won at such terrible cost) must always be a tricky manoevre to pull off - before you know where you are, history is...
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1810 of my comments have received 1861 Great Feedback votes

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"They told me to walk slower

Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024

"They told me to walk slower all my life and I never got anywhere as a result. Bastards. See that cloud up there?

Aye.

Doesn’t it look like a lump of shite?

It does."

Brilliant in every way, enrich your spirit with...

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Posted in Ambulance (Part One)

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You really have given it

Posted on Thu, 07 Nov 2024

You really have given it character! There seems something welcoming about the sea here, on the West. And it is amazing how different light is, the purple that gets into everything. I guess on the East, there's always the sense that cold weather...

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Posted in East Coast Scotland (Reflection)

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You made me think how Lego

Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024

You made me think how Lego has become like gold, to be handed down, and added to over generations! And imagined that others in your family made things from the same bricks - it is almost like DNA :0)
The trouble with those expensive sets is...

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Posted in Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!

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Glad you think all her songs

Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Glad you think all her songs sound the same, too :0) Brilliant IP response, Thankyou! Find it so interesting that she endorsed Harris, and Musk endorsed Trump, two very powerful opposites in social media? Maybe she really does make white noise,...

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Posted in On the Wind

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You Poor One! So sorry things

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

You Poor One! So sorry things are so horrible still. It is like you to think of helping others by writing of your experience in the MRI. I am glad that found there is nothing extra wrong with your back, as that must mean once you have your other...

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Posted in Can Life Get Better?

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This very powerful expression

Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024

This very powerful expression of what so many of us feel, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in They Were Only Children

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As CM said, Summer up here

Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2024

As CM said, Summer up here has been and gone. Not sure more than 2 weeks of days with any sunshine, where we live. But your poem makes me grateful not to be somewhere more meteorologically exuberant! I do hope you get your rainy coolness by bed...

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Posted in No Country for Cold Men

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Brilliant :0) I love that

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

Brilliant :0) I love that wearing a toadstool hat can make a person blend in. Also, intrigued how happy Spencer is that Vanessa will buy him a present. Oh, and how she says "No" about him smoking, imagining smoke coming out of "my gaps" could...

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 29

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So many great stories and

Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024

So many great stories and poems today, choosing was really hard. This piece by Marandina, intriguing and full of wonderful description will have you instantly hooked, and it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part One of Two)

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Jane Hyphen's encounter with

Posted on Fri, 03 May 2024

Jane Hyphen's unsettling encounter with what seems like the opposite of her guardian angel is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

The image is from here :
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Posted in Ratface

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