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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 654044 times and 285 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1981 of my 5,986 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2043 votes

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unclear nuclear

we'll rack up radioactive waste costing billions to dispose of safely. but who has billions to spare when people are dying now, for lack of Health...
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part 11

A voice, deep and rumbly, but cosy, too, "HERE'S YOUR WAND, REGN!" , not loud, but it left no room for any other sound in Mary's head. She couldn't...
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wheels to rotors

in the chrysalis of shock we change - made to fight for self respect or flight on wings of fear high above what once we held dear. All the DNA that...
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indigo

In-dig O, Earth, our slow whirled world here, find waiting flowers of Love everlasting safe-kept all year for two weeks in May, every year whatever...
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butterfly moment

truants of moonlight soft as forgetting wings, pale, delicate flicker in arcs then fold, as hair-fine feet cling, taste star white wild garlic...

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1981 of my comments have received 2043 Great Feedback votes

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You are quite right Tom, it's

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....

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Posted in time travelling

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Recently I have been shaking

Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025

Recently I have been shaking so much, and don't know, wonder if it is thinking of this. It is the trappedness that makes it seem worse, being held prisoner till agreeing to give up what's yours, being encouraged to this end by starvation, no...

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Posted in Up to Their Ears in Tears

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I love that comment about

Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025

I love that comment about service stations, you make them seem places for time travellers, too. Or, as in your story, modern in-between places, our stone circles/fairy rings.

Had not read your original version of this, but the one i have...

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (2)

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Don't know what to say.

Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025

Don't know what to say. Thought I might quote some lines, then realised it is the whole of every part.
What is it doing to everyone? Those in there, suffering death, injury, loss because of the inaction of those outside; those outside...

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Posted in Up to Their Ears in Tears

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just an opinion

Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025

just an opinion
Yes, the first part works wonderfully as a stand alone.

The second and third parts seem to go on, to raise the question of choosing time and place and company?

In the past, if I understand correctly, choosing...

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Posted in A Pen y ffrwd Love Story Part Three

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Reading your story made me

Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025

Reading your story made me think of the quote : "For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven" . In the first part, Cerian was not ready for the unknown, however wonderful it might be, and by the end, the reader...

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Posted in A Pen y ffrwd Love Story Part Three

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I hope your grief heals over

Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025

I hope your grief heals over so you are not aware of hurting all the time. This is fabulous but I am so sorry

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Posted in This Sad Blister

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How lovely to find a whole

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025

How lovely to find a whole new band to explore! I am so glad you have something happy to light you through this time Jenny. I like the idea of music raining down very much, you soaking it up like a tree needing water

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Posted in Let Me Go Back

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Wonderful rhyme and rhythm in

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025

Wonderful rhyme and rhythm in your poem Rhiannon. Am wondering whether the News holds back saying there will be hosepipe bans for as long as they can, knowing the minute they say water levels are terribly low it will rain every day for weeks and...

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Posted in Whatever the weather …

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Ah! So he IS made whole :0)

Posted on Mon, 23 Jun 2025

Ah! So he IS made whole :0) Like the road not taken and the one you take, all lead to the same place? And Jack's character, how he developed, will seep into John, now. No regrets

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Posted in Dead Man: 6 (ii)

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