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27 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 615662 times
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1421 of my 4,537 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1434 votes
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.
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My stories
Song to the Siren: A Titan Story (Part One of Three)
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Ranthambore
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Angel Light
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Geisha
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Three of Three)
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Another wonderfully unique
Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2024
Another wonderfully unique tale.
That's why this is our Facebook and X/Twitter Pick of the Day.
Congratulations, Itane.
Read full commentPosted in No escape from reality
It looks odds on that CGT
Posted on Fri, 06 Sep 2024
It looks odds on that CGT will be aligned with personal rates of taxation at 20/40/45% at the next budget. Probably with immediate effect from 30th October. Landlords are already selling up in droves. Labour in Wales are levying 200% council tax...
Read full commentPosted in The Bleeding Of Britain and the People (from the Imaginations of Alfred N.Muggins)
What a brilliantly original
Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2024
What a brilliantly original notion - the anthropomorphism of the Devil. You do these philosophical musings so well. Life is rarely black and white and was it ever greyer than attributing human frailties to Satan? Loved this.
Read full commentPosted in No escape from reality
Eesh..I've seen images of MRI
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
Eesh..I've seen images of MRI scans on the telly. Everyone seems intimidated by them and some folks can't make it all the way through the session. I can only imagine how scary the loud sounds must be. So glad your health issue has been narrowed...
Read full commentPosted in Can Life Get Better?
"Do they engage in wistful
Posted on Thu, 05 Sep 2024
"Do they engage in wistful reverie as I do.."
You have captured quite a complicated avian picture there, Jenny. The hierarchy of birds. Word pictures skilfully assembled in your poem.
Personally, I rather like corvids. There's...
Read full commentPosted in Contemplating Crows
"..and boilers get busy
Posted on Thu, 05 Sep 2024
"..and boilers get busy
to make our homes cosy."
You capture the mood of the changing season so reflectively, Rhiannon. Some lovely imagery in here.
Personally, I don't mind the end of summer at all. I adore autumn and winter...
Read full commentPosted in The earth moves on …
Thanks for reading, Di. I
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
Thanks for reading, Di. I think a lot more needs to more researched on this particular innovation before anyone can pontificate. In the meantime ...we speculate instead :)
[Hope all is well in your beautiful part of the world]
Read full commentPosted in Ghostbot (Part One of Two)
"The summer imperceptibly is
Posted on Mon, 02 Sep 2024
"The summer imperceptibly is ending,
our path towards an end is wending..."
That's a thoughtful sweep through the seasons, Rhiannon.
Let's hope the last stanza comes true.
Very nicely done, as always.
Read full commentPosted in The Seasonal Years …
"Beneath this canopy of
Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024
"Beneath this canopy of oppression
Suppression, her self-hating cousin"
You have a penchant for using metaphor within nature, Jane. And you do it very well.
Layers within the lines and leaving the reader to arrive at their...
Read full commentPosted in Forest in the Brain
I am one of those who listen
Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024
I am one of those who listen to Alfred N.Muggins. He makes a lot of sense.
I see there's a General Strike in Israel now with more calls for a ceasefire with Hamas. I guess there's only so much pain people will endure.
Keep up the...
Read full commentPosted in The Man Who Almost Saved The World by Alfred N.Muggins
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