marandina

Primary tabs

I have 218 stories published in 27 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 521485 times and 294 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1377 of my 4,427 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1390 votes

Trusted critic
marandina's picture
Paul

I am a Brummie living in Northampton who loves to write but gets distracted with other things. I enjoy horror/fantasy and anything that provokes original thought.

My literary heroes are Clive Barker, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft. Everyone should read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four .

I have work published by AlienBuddha Press, Loft Books, BlackBough Poems, DarkWinter Literary Magazine and Paragraph Planet.

You can find me on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685

on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BeeRummie

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beerummie/

at Bluesky @marandina.bsky.social

and at Threads https://www.threads.net/@beerummie

 

1377 of my comments have received 1390 Great Feedback votes

1 Vote

Reminds me of Glastonbury

Posted on Sat, 31 Jul 2021

Reminds me of Glastonbury Village. Beautiful imagery so well described. Paul :)

Read full comment

Posted in Compelling Dream

1 Vote

Purpled Trojan princes

Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021

Purpled Trojan princes driving pimped BMWs. I really should read up on the historical inference in this poem. Certainly entertaining and, I imagine, cleverly done. Great stuff!

Read full comment

Posted in Notes by Menelaus on Helen’s Abduction

1 Vote

Up to date again. The

Posted on Sun, 25 Jul 2021

Up to date again. The dialogue and chemistry across your characters is very strong. The differentiation is credible and is the essence of this series. Keep going. It's great stuff.

Read full comment

Posted in "Willow's Tail" 13

1 Vote

Nicely done, Rhiannon. Words

Posted on Tue, 27 Jul 2021

Nicely done, Rhiannon. Words carefully intertwined with a nice rhythm and an underlying message. Hoping you are well. Paul :)

Read full comment

Posted in False Hope

1 Vote

Dreamy, beautiful and

Posted on Tue, 27 Jul 2021

Dreamy, beautiful and optimistic. Congrats on the POTD, sir.

Read full comment

Posted in The Wonder of it All

1 Vote

Ah Levelupland - is that

Posted on Tue, 27 Jul 2021

Ah Levelupland - is that close to Huddersfield? Another enjoyable virtual walk with Ewan and the woofer :)

Read full comment

Posted in Woodland Walk

1 Vote

".. like buck's brief

Posted on Sun, 25 Jul 2021

".. like buck's brief stillness before the charge." I did see it was a Buck Moon recently. I enjoyed this poem and the comments left in this thread. Inspirational and informative. Paul :)

Read full comment

Posted in Force Of Life

1 Vote

A familiar theme for another

Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021

A familiar theme for another of your poems, Richard. Out camping listening to the trill of loons. Beautiful moments captured in verse.

Read full comment

Posted in An Encounter With Self

1 Vote

I can only imagine how

Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2021

I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been to have been involved with a ship sinking. Always feels like newspaper reports were so much more detailed in the past compared to these days.

Read full comment

Posted in Maria's Diary 35 The Shipwreck

1 Vote

There's a lot in there to

Posted on Wed, 21 Jul 2021

There's a lot in there to think about. In the end, we only have the one blue planet. Wise words carefully crafted in a super poem, of course.

Read full comment

Posted in Instead of throwing money at the sky

Pages