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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 734005 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2111 of my 6,198 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2176 votes

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Cherry

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...
Cherry

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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Cherry

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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Cherry

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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2111 of my comments have received 2176 Great Feedback votes

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You've conveyed all your

Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019

You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...

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Posted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)

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BRILLIANT!!!

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019

BRILLIANT!!! This is absolute magic :0)

love "pale posy bunches" "coin wings" Wow! "seed-bulge" perfect . Also "far beyond their leafing"

well, all of it, really!

 

Insert, i wasn't sure what the trees across the road...

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Posted in The fruit of the elm

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Very interesting to read his

Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018

Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...

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Posted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I

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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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Yes, Mr Ben was my hero for a

Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025

Yes, Mr Ben was my hero for a long time :0) In Primary school, when a child says they want to be a writer or artist, teachers seem to think that's wonderful, but this becomes less and less so as adult world looms nearer. As a reader I am very...

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Posted in At Home in the Pause

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Enjoyed this very much, Thank

Posted on Wed, 15 Oct 2025

Enjoyed this very much, Thank You :0) And your land/sea scape photos are FABULOUS!!!
I have heard about flags, must be very intimidating. Is a bit ironic they are not making them locally and supporting local workers, but supporting...

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Posted in Finding Fionnuala

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Bringing a Viking shipbuilder

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025

Evoking a Viking shipbuilder's inspiration, this vivid poem is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Floki's Viking Spirit

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That's a wonderful IP

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025

That's a wonderful IP response, Rhiannon :0) Agree about Victorian hymns being great fun, the unity found in all the voices, doesn't matter if a person (eg me) can't sing, the feeling of joy, being uplifted, the shell of the walls filled with a...

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Posted in Perfect Home

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I saw Floki in Vikings, but

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025

I saw Floki in Vikings, but not any of what your amazing imagination found! I love :

"Silent billows drift – clouding veil that

twinkles brink, distant span without a

bridge...far out of reach."

Magical poem, brilliant...

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Posted in Floki's Viking Spirit

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Ooooh! Still really exciting

Posted on Sat, 11 Oct 2025

Ooooh! Still really exciting :0)

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Posted in Ghigau 16

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