MJG

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I have 36 stories published in 0 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 79061 times and 55 of my stories have been cherry picked.
18 of my 232 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 18 votes

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Cherry

Goodbye George

By MJG on Tue, 26 Nov 2019

‘Goodbye lovely Boy’, John strokes the horse’s neck; breathes him in. ‘We tried everything’, he ruffles his wide hand over the black mane. Asks his...
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

No Good News

By MJG on Wed, 19 Dec 2018

Grey dawn with builder’s tea and buttered toast my computer eyes the dark world for sewer stories that stick like burrs. The woman who axes her...
Poem
Certificate 12
Cherry

Summer's end

By MJG on Thu, 11 Oct 2018

Rain hammers on windows before the hurricane. I fling open the wardrobe where summer still hangs; scented with perfume and sunscreen, translucent...
Poem
Certificate 12
Cherry

Toad Spring 2018

By MJG on Wed, 31 Jan 2018

The soil suddenly breathed as I forked a pale Hellebore into sodden earth. Almost riven through a spoon-backed, squat toad. Warty: blotched green-...
Poem
Certificate U
Gold cherry

The lover, the husband and the wife

By MJG on Fri, 08 Sep 2017

Ava counted the two halves of the month in her mind, rocking them together like a cradle as Josh slid out of her. There was only a remote chance of...
Story
Certificate 15

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