Ed Crane
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I have 277 stories published in
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My stories have been read 423635 times
and 281 of my stories have been cherry picked.
214 of my 2,076 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 224 votes
My stories
Waiting for the Flyers Pt14 The Drive
It was a pleasant surprise to see how well our folks had prepared the road. It was smooth and hard, strengthened by gravel in places ready for winter...
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At the Well of the Itza
The locals call it Chicken Pizza Its sacrificial wells and ball courts silent long before the conquistadors ignored it and sold the land for for...
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Waiting for the Flyers Part 13: Jess of the Oaks
‘Jess wants a meeting, he says it’s urgent.’ Jack and a young lad I had seen about before the accident stood facing me as I eased myself into my...
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Aaron's World (second and Final part)
NINE YEARS AND FOURTEEN DAYS (9.534) after his arrival -- a Thursday -- Aaron returned to his couch, the exotic flavour of Puff-Bix lingering on his...
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AARON’S WORLD: Part 1
A tongue-in-cheek story about an over populated technological world in two parts (updated from a previous post) ------ Ouroboros symbol from Wiki Commons
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Worth reading just for this line. . . .
Posted on Mon, 27 Apr 2020
She thinks she can’t be heard, like a driver picking his nose in open view.
Top stuff, reminded me of summer evenings mooching around in my parents suburban back garden while they were all watching something...
Read full commentPosted in La belleza
You found my weak spot Kev!
Posted on Wed, 26 Feb 2020
As a child growing up in London's suburbia I became a "bus spotter" at about the age of eleven. It was all the rage at shcool swapping Ian Allen books on buses and trains. I found buses more interesting mostly because nearly all the ones that...
Read full commentPosted in Buses
I'll buy that, Ewan
Posted on Fri, 31 Jan 2020
Read full commentPosted in A Hymn for Silent Bells
I just posted it but it's I'll put it here also cheers
Posted on Sun, 26 Jan 2020
Ullswater:
dark and brooding fells
mirrored on tranquil waters
blessed by Wainwright’s boots
Read full commentPosted in Memory and sacred places
The fear of guilt is a powerful attraction towards the unwanted
Posted on Sat, 25 Jan 2020
And nothing ferments guilt like the fear of disloyalty. A circle of fear I guess. I imagine it will be over eventually one way or another. The books are your friend, love them and they'll see you through.
I attempted Ulysses but I was kind...
Read full commentPosted in Reading room
Thanks FB and Drew
Posted on Thu, 23 Jan 2020
I will begin working on a follow up today. It may take a while, I'm not the fastest of writers.
Read full commentPosted in Changing Hands (revised title)
You make a very good point about shallowness
Posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2019
So twisted the world. States in the US offer no leeway when it comes to choosing not to give an unwanted embryo life and yet in the same country people want perfect designer babies and reject the rest while there are desparate parents who cherish...
Read full commentPosted in Return To Sender
Sorry to butt in Jack (I have been trying to keep up)
Posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2019
My Daughter was born in 1980 in the 'soft south' (Camberley Surrey) and I don't recall my wife having an ultrasound. When she went in labour all they had was sort of microphone thing they put on her tummy which amplified the baby's heart beat,...
Read full commentPosted in Angel 35 (scan)
cañas work for me.
Posted on Fri, 15 Feb 2019
Pity that the ghost of Franco still hovers over the peninsular. Bit of a worry really,
I hope the Spanish have more sense than the Hungarians and Poles though.
On re-reading what I wrote I realised that the Belgian fall int three...
Read full commentPosted in Among friends
Wow, Thanks very much Luigi
Posted on Thu, 14 Feb 2019
That is such anice thing to say. I really appreciated that. Especially coming from someone who loves writing poetry as much as you do.
Read full commentPosted in Blowing Up the Street (IP)
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