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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 890067 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2208 of my 6,237 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2295 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...
Gold cherry

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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2208 of my comments have received 2295 Great Feedback votes

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Hullo, did you know M&S do

Posted on Sat, 30 Jul 2022

Hullo, did you know M&S do online measurements, or even ones on the phone? If you type into google "UK how to measure for bra" M&S website is at the top, so lots of people must need this? If you go to the page, there is also an opton to...

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Posted in M&S

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" sea delivers selfless peace

Posted on Sat, 02 Jul 2022

" sea delivers selfless peace." It does. I liked this very much. 

Was a bit confused by this,, is it a crowd of crows?

"A black crowd straddles the sand....

Later the rogue tangles with another crow,"

 ...

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Posted in On Oddicombe Beach

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Great to read  Ugly Puggly

Posted on Fri, 24 Jun 2022

Great to read  Ugly Puggly again, this bit is genius

"Well, if we’re gonnae go up tae the crematorium, a council van will blend in like a tombstone. And if anybody spots us, they’ll hink we’re council workers. No expect us tae move, or dae...

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Posted in Ugly Puggly 42

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Phew, I thought now Ewan was

Posted on Fri, 29 Apr 2022

Phew, I thought now Ewan was being eaten up by the mysterious monster. It is like a detective story in its own right. Write

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Posted in Sticky Wullie

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I  don't want you to change a

Posted on Thu, 21 Apr 2022

I  don't want you to change a speckle of Ugly Puggly,he is perfect, an absolutely brilliant creation.I wish so much he existed. Even though he isn't real, I feel a bit better about all the things worrying me all the time, just imagining he is on...

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Posted in Ugly Puggly 8

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I have a TERRIBLE  memory,

Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

I have a TERRIBLE  memory, but very good writing, sticks :0)

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Posted in Don't Look at the Sheikh

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Those poor mothers, they will

Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022

Those poor mothers, they will be feeling so guilty! I did not understand from the article if the children were still to be put in care? It sounded like the police were unsure what to do, to stay on the right side of the law. What a horrific thing...

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Posted in Het Bonhe

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It begins with the quiet

Posted on Mon, 07 Feb 2022

It begins with the quiet

of an owl's wing, mist muffled,

of river breath hushed

this is so magical. Perfect. I like the timeless feel of the rhyme of bone and known, and the cast of birds waiting in...

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Posted in The Quiet of An Owl’s Wing, February

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I don't understand why it is

Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022

I don't understand why it is ok to eat meat. But as Lena raises there is something worse in a way, how life is stripped of any dignity in polystyrene trays and clingfilm, exchanges the wires of a cage for the lines in a barcode and never knows...

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Posted in (This Life) Part 3: The Butcher’s Wi(n)dow

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I felt colder reading this!

Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021

I felt colder reading this! Very glad to be inside :0)

 I liked "scrawny" with "stark",

and "shake" at the end of the line with the added buffets of repeated "a" sounds in "gale" and "lashing".

And then you end with an echo...

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Posted in Turn of the year ’scape

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