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I have 552 stories published in
26 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 611270 times
and 290 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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
Your hair smells of boxes
Your dog smells like toast and the new book you bought to cheer yourself up does not deserve the glowing reviews. Just because your plants are dead...
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The Inglorious Years
It took two years to even be vaguely sure She was in the right place, constantly not phoning her parents, I will do this on my own. Travelling alone...
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Where was the tenderness lost
In our stripey t-shirts we say that although things are different now let’s always be here for each other and we both get in our waiting taxis that...
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Post-jogging
With hills like this you’d be silly not to make yourself some playlists, put some headphones on and go running, or at least on fast walks that make...
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80
I'm happy to go at eighty. Two of my friends, both called Matthew died in their thirties and maybe if they hadn't shared a name it wouldn't have hit...
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