Philip Sidney
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 694141 times
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393 of my 5,296 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 391 votes
My stories
Trees on the Arapuni Road
When they felled the high trees mother was delighted she lived in fear of their imminent collapse onto our matchbox house despite their wounds they...
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Talking to My Mother
Talking to my mother is easier now she is dead - she’d put me into orbit but I was more of a spin-off - not an asteroid or meteorite on a trajectory...
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Affected by this Issue
They’ve been working on the house two doors down for 6 months now It looks spectacular Young men have been there all day music blaring machines...
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Misogyny in the 70s
The things they said: loose - went to the pub without her husband threw herself about a bit put herself on show as a woman of loose morals wanted to...
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Assange Dancing
I saw Assange dancing in the Ikon gallery in a windowless cubbyhole of a neo-gothic tower tucked away from wide white spaces where young people with...
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Deliciously visceral.
Posted on Fri, 23 Oct 2020
Deliciously visceral.
Read full commentPosted in Mr Buckland’s Hyenas
What a fabulous speech of a
Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2020
What a fabulous speech of a poem! Powerful and recognisable.
Read full commentPosted in Deus Ex Machina
There's a sense of gentle
Posted on Wed, 16 Sep 2020
There's a sense of gentle retreat here which is in turns comforting and unsettling.
Read full commentPosted in In Quiet Moments
This is wonderful!
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020
This is wonderful!
Read full commentPosted in Thinking Out Loud
Very enjoyable- I like the
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
Very enjoyable- I like the detail about food as we are made to feel hungry alongside the characters. I think younger readers would love this and the previous chapter.
Read full commentPosted in Pins (19)
Great panorama then action
Posted on Thu, 23 Jul 2020
Great panorama then action followed by a lovely- almost fairytale end - rich pickings.
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This exactly what I wanted.
Posted on Thu, 23 Jul 2020
This exactly what I wanted. I feel like I know them better now.
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I wonder if Puri comes from a
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2020
I wonder if Puri comes from a different time - I don't think she would be able to learn English alone and her knowledge seems to be that of someone with a wider perspective.
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This is so visual - full of
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
This is so visual - full of vibrant colour - as is fitting for a vivacious biography/autobiography.
This blast of warmth is a mini-hoilday for me - it's our facebook and Twitter pick of the day - do share it.
Read full commentPosted in Cherry Dreamin'
A tangled web - I'm looking
Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2020
A tangled web - I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next!
Read full commentPosted in Moving Pictures, part 3 of 3
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