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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 542395 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Really enjoyed this. My

Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018

Really enjoyed this. My partner is doing OU in computing and we joke it is his magic books being delivered by the postman.

Particularly liked "Summon a Magician! I appear, sometime just after a puff of smoke actually.“

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Posted in Mechanics & Artists

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I like this one.  

Posted on Sat, 24 Mar 2018

I like this one.

 

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Posted in Beyond the Day

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I sympathise with the

Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2018

I sympathise with the narrator - you have so well described how stressful it is for children to keep foxes out of hen runs. Always straining your ears incase you miss their terrified clucking cackle, even when you are asleep.

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Posted in The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chapters 13-14)

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Maybe it's because we are

Posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2018

Maybe it's because we are tool makers that we look for purpose in everything we come across, even life. But "pure experience of being" as you say, unsullied with being chipped into a more useful shape, that's what animals have, presumeably that's...

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Posted in So long

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Enjoyed this richly packed

Posted on Tue, 13 Mar 2018

Enjoyed this richly packed account, haiku like fitting a wardrobe of clothes into a brief case. Particularly liked the botanic garden in the storm, and patatas bravas in Burger King

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Posted in Coimbra Haiku

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I like this appreciation of

Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018

I like this appreciation of the uncomplicated but intense feelings of dogs.

Also sympathise with not being able to upload pictures. My partner is doing an OU computing degree but I dread asking for help because of the sighs :0)

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Posted in They all rolled over

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It is like you are suffering

Posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2018

It is like you are suffering from lack of oxygen, isn't it? Being stuck in the house, the frustration, somehow the best thing seems to be to shut down. Post meno pause I feel like Humpty Dumpty just thinking about climbing over a wall :0)

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Posted in Housebound

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yes, the space thing gets me,

Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018

yes, the space thing gets me, too. So busy looking for the remote possibility of life out there even as we wear away at any possibility of the amazing wonder that is Life continuing down here

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Posted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part thirteen)

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Wonderful read, thankyou. Am

Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2018

Wonderful read, thankyou. Am constantly amazed on here at the detail of other people's childhood memories. And books. I can read books I know I loved as a teenager bcause by a favourite author, but not remember the tiniest bit. You really brought...

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Posted in Uncle Patrick and The Age of Elegance

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Sorry to read about the flu,

Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2018

Sorry to read about the flu, was wondering why no poems from you lately. But this is worth the wait. I like the beginning, having to go back after the fourth/fifth stanza and check it didn't have to be about a person then wondering what it was, a...

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Posted in Traveller

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