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I have 260 stories published in 28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1230465 times and 351 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1641 of my 5,105 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1678 votes

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I am a Brummie living in North Somerset 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

 

My stories

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The Sure Yank Redemption

This is a sequel to: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/most-vial The jet plane roared as it penetrated trans-Atlantic airspace. The ocean rose...
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The Last Elephant

Forged in bucolic harmonies, an interdependence born of millennia, a symbiosis of flora and fauna, when humanity lived as one, in a world of...
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Footsteps on Mars

In the dead of an iridescent moonlit night, in an amphitheatre of curious crickets, chirping in the rattling reed bush, I am camped under a haven of...
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Most Vial

This is a sequel to “Invisible” at https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/invisible The walls looked as dull today as they had yesterday. Paint...
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Setting Sons

I have seen the spectral darkness, quiescent corridors where emotions quietly dissipate. I have been in the unlit, silent void, a vale of tears where...

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1641 of my comments have received 1678 Great Feedback votes

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It's not like me to be right

Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

It's not like me to be right twice in the same day. Once is a rarity. I know nuffink, of course. Well according to my OH. 

The bond between Turkey and Bulgaria is clear for all to see from your razor sharp writing. You should consider...

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Posted in Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

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"..with his darling Jane, his

Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

"..with his darling Jane, his spouse,
no regrets for Uncle Claus!"

Adroitly done, Rhiannon. Rhythm, rhyming and a good story :)

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Posted in Uncle Claus

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Major change is afoot in

Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

Major change is afoot in France with National Rally bringing credibility to the Far Right it seems. If they make it to government then I think revolution and counter-revolution will be on a scale not seen in decades. I see Europe lurching...

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Posted in An Easter Message Of Confusion from Alfred N.Muggins Part 2 : France!

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Really like "..octave of

Posted on Thu, 27 Jun 2024

Really like "..octave of scents.." A fusion of senses - musical/hearing and smell.

And that's a great last line:

"They are nothing but carbon"

A thoughtful reverie of the beauty and beast of roses. Whole thing feels like a...

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Posted in This Rose Garden

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"The elephant is heavy, the

Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024

"The elephant is heavy, the feather is light,
the elephant is grey, the feather is white."

There's a lovely, lilting rhythm to this. Nicely done, Rhiannon.

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Posted in Extreme differences!

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"there's tiny

Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024

"there's tiny

secret footprints across leafy

glade of my world, setting

visions of wonder."

Imagination is a wonderful thing. I enjoyed that flight of fantasy with you, Jenny.

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Posted in His Flight

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"The people of both sides

Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024

"The people of both sides will be shown justice and respect for once."

That's a decent dream of Alfred's. Hoping it comes true one day.

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Posted in Alfred Muggins’ Easter Dream

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"So, what do I do 

Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024

"So, what do I do 

of these penny pastiches 

that flutter and stutter awry"

 

That's a wonderful poem.

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Posted in Dirge for another year gone by

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Ah thanks Jenny. Hoping you

Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024

Ah thanks Jenny. Hoping you are on the mend now.

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Posted in West of Ireland

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It is odd that "democracy"

Posted on Thu, 20 Jun 2024

It is odd that "democracy" stands and falls on a choice of just two. To be fair, ideologically, the parties in the US are diametrically at opposite ends of the political spectrum so there is choice. At least an illusion of choice. It seems rough...

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Posted in The Year of the Elections by Alfred N.Muggins

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