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I have 552 stories published in
26 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 596064 times
and 290 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2 of my 75 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 3 votes
I'm John. I live in Norwich and write poems and books and for the radio. My first full poetry collection Most people aren't that happy, anyway is published by Nasty Little Press. You can take a look at it here.
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Push Me In The River
If you have ever fallen into a moat, lake, swamp, paddling pool or any small body of water you will know how I feel right now. This is a go home...
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- 79 reads
Even wider than it was before
I walk past a teenager eating a cooked breakfast on his own in a brightly coloured café and immediately remember a holiday when I was about fifteen,...
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- 29 reads
Pulp Fiction
A pile of CDs in the bedroom of the house that you still live in, in your dreams. The first wedding you go to as an adult, You look at the bride and...
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A Bookshop in Aberystwyth
It was in my drinking days, hungover at the seaside, Butty Bach after Butty Bach, bringing up all my usual drunken topics, people on their phones in...
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On Certainty
On Saturdays we get a Guardian delivered it's always through our door at 8.55 the regularity makes us feel good that someone is in a routine their...
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Red wine and Maltesers!
Posted on Wed, 25 Oct 2023
Red wine and Maltesers!
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Ah, sorry, had no idea! Have
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2020
Ah, sorry, had no idea! Have changed it now!!
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