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I have 214 stories published in 27 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 473440 times and 286 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1341 of my 4,338 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1357 votes

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

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My stories

Ashes To Ashes

By marandina on Mon, 03 Apr 2006

It was dark in the beginning; a neutrino sat suspended in a vast array of nothingness. All things of real matter were frozen in an inanimate void of space and time. It was impossible to explain this vacuum -'it simply was

Spiritual

Story

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At the Going Down of The Sun

By marandina on Wed, 15 Feb 2006

A poem about a life

Autobiography

Poem

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Private Heaven

By marandina on Fri, 03 Feb 2006

Memnock had waited for a thousand years. At least, he thought it was a thousand years but it could have been much longer than that; he didn't wear a watch after all.

Humour

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Chinese Whispers

By marandina on Sun, 22 Jan 2006

I guess there was no way of knowing that things would turn out like this. As I stood and stared out across the moonlit, mountain vista, I reflected back on what had led up to this moment. When you're a mile high in the sky the air seems so much clearer and your thoughts become crystallised like a moth caught in an arctic freeze.

Spiritual

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A Working Complaint

By marandina on Sun, 15 Jan 2006

It's been a hard day's night, And I've been working like a dog,

Other Fiction

Poem

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Good to see you back, bhi.

Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2023

Good to see you back, bhi. This one is dense, absorbing and in an original format for a poem. A worthy continuation of the "This Life" theme. Paul

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Posted in (This Life) Part 10 – Chapter 1: The Dream Catcher’s Tale

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"...in faded, bloodied

Posted on Fri, 07 Jul 2023

"...in faded, bloodied parchment

and scarcely discernible runes."

Love this poem. An evocative journey through a dark forest with such descriptive language.

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Posted in We

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"...whose whims must be

Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2023

"...whose whims must be obeyed."

The reality for many. There's a great rhythm and rhyme to this, Rhiannon. It bounces along and is a lovely read. Nicely done. Paul

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Posted in Escape into dream jobs

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Those English stag parties

Posted on Wed, 05 Jul 2023

Those English stag parties get everywhere even if they fizzle out by mid-afternoon. As entertaining as ever and heaving with interesting details nestled amongst the humour. You should write travelogies for a living. Adriotly done. Paul

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Posted in The Bratislava Pálava - Part Two of Two

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