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I have 552 stories published in
26 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 641863 times
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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.
My stories
I expect God will be there
Slightly strange isn't it that I can't call myself an atheist. I've been thinking about the afterlife or more specifically the bit directly before it...
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On the platform
Sometimes it's walking up the tenement staircase slow motion spiral epiphanies and by the time you've put the key in the door you remember the beauty...
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- 487 reads
Asking for the bill
I don’t like asking for the bill sitting at the table with my empty cup this waitress is an unreturned text message an email that should have been...
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A supermarket just before closing
A nurse does her big shop the rest of us are here for cider or cigarettes or last minute milk "I'll just nip down to Tescos we MUST have cereal for...
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Another baby
The barmaid's sister in law is in labour. She keeps getting phonecalls from the corridors of the late night maternity ward where a cleaner mops and...
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