Jim Archibald

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I have 24 stories published in one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 15898 times and 2 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2 of my 17 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2 votes

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Jim Archibald

 

My stories

A Christmas Carol

By Jim Archibald on Mon, 21 Dec 2020

Charles Dickens surely wrote the book. He found the cutest Little Matchgirl peering through a window of opportunity. And in the halo of a leaded...
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

Them's The Breaks

By Jim Archibald on Tue, 16 Jun 2020

'This is the last time, Jimmy. It's getting a bit iffy, you know what they're like?' He threw it onto the table. Wrapped, discreet in its work-a-day...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18

Hearing Voices

By Jim Archibald on Tue, 16 Jun 2020

A soft-centred morning. The spongy surface of day, where ideas graze on crusts of past imaginings. New life flirts amongst old dreams, stirring cold...
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate PG

An American in Paris

By Jim Archibald on Fri, 20 Oct 2017

An encounter at a book launch in the American Library, Paris...
Spiritual
Talecatching
Poem
Certificate 18

The Gathering Gloom

By Jim Archibald on Wed, 18 Oct 2017

Moonlight drops quilted darkness over all the tops. A smothering hush, lush from Nature's palette knife stops the chatter. Its syrup drops to soothe...
Poem
Certificate U

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2 of my comments have received 2 Great Feedback votes

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Hi Ewan,

Posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2020

Hi Ewan,

There is a willful irony in this piece, no?  A Plainsong chant that makes me smile in shared recognition.  I'm drawn to ré-reading, which is a sure sign it works for me...

Cheers,

Jim

 

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I think the first stanza says

Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2014

I think the first stanza says it all.  Sharing the surreal with a dispassionate reader is very difficult as you are asking the reader to invest.  Technically it works for me, though perhaps telling the dream in the present tense would make it...

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Posted in You understand, I think