Locke
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I have 7 stories published in
3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 4956 times
and one story has been cherrypicked.
My collections
My stories
VALEDICTION
Tuck your Lee and your Liffey in their respective beds of varicose marble and put them away for ever. Your waterproof shrouds are gone to shreds and won’t stand mending. So it’s time to sever
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- 725 reads
METHINKS
I fished it out of ill-assorted linguistic clutter that came with this unsolicited country, with its cold sky, with unwanted scenery, with a random splatter
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- 682 reads
The Cribs
The Cribs Purveyors of fine food since God knows when, O’Connor’s have them lined up on their display along with scores of angels and reindeer.
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- 613 reads
'Shopping centre at night...'
Shopping centre at night, old ladies’ delight. A cuppa and Turkish Delight. My mother will never learn, haggard and careworn, to shop for an evening gown. Whispering ‘How nice!’
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ODE TO THE CITY
Why don’t you leave me? Go your own way, display your tacky, outdated fares: rattle you markets, strut your fountains, roll out acres of your stairways,
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