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I have 276 stories published in 28 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1376650 times and 373 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1737 of my 5,373 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1788 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

Autumn

By marandina on Sun, 19 Sep 2021

Autumn The Harvest Moon will reach peak illumination on Monday, September 20 The Autumn Equinox is on Wednesday 22 nd September 2021 Moonlight lunar...

Nature

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With or Without You

By marandina on Tue, 14 Sep 2021

We promise ourselves to remember…always. Sometimes memories can eventually be washed away like sandcastles on a beach… Dan Foley had waited for this...

Surreal

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Chinese Whispers (edited and updated, 2021)

By marandina on Mon, 30 Aug 2021

This is the story I read live at the ABC Reading on 26 th August 2021. I understand not everyone could hear it due to technical issues so here is an...

Fantasy

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Ballerina Toy Box

By marandina on Sun, 29 Aug 2021

The boundary between the real and imagined world can be a thin veil Daylight fades, an ethereal twilight descends, I turn the key, music tinkles like...

Fantasy

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Kabul Airport

By marandina on Tue, 24 Aug 2021

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-latest-kabul-a... https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/08/children-orphaned-as-their-parents-cr...

Drama

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Posted on Sat, 26 Oct 2024

That's a powerful last line. Foreboding. Let's hope sanity prevails. Eventually.

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Posted in If Netanyahu and the Israelis should invade Britain? (Don’t panic! It’s only History repeating itself!) by Alfred N.Muggins

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That's writing discipline

Posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2024

That's writing discipline right there...12 months and 36,600 words later. Congratulations on a genuine achievement (I'm not sure what a non-genuine achievement is but it seemed to scan).

You have a definite talent for writing travelogue....

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Posted in Ex Crete

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All caught up again.

Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2024

All caught up again.

Yes, the "experiencing high volumes...we value your call.." is spot on! I've had that a few times just recently.

That's a comic dilemma neatly chiselled. I sense a debate around an invalid claim coming from the...

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Posted in Parcel for You...Part 37

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"..then followed

Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024

"..then followed

by a Peter Pan moment swooping

down with his shadow."

That's a powerful image, that child-like connection linking younger days to older. Time goes so quickly but poetry can be timeless. Great stuff, Jenny.

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Posted in Magic Of Youth

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