Philip Sidney
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
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My stories
Cow
Otto's cow poems distracted me...
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K Ward - part 1 (Out of Sight)
Thomas watched as shadows moved across the ward. The silhouette of the bars of his bed stretched and shrank over grey lino, as though some hidden...
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Poetry Day Pastoral
I shouldn’t be writing this poem. I should be unravelling, rewinding, today's tangled mess, into the juggling balls of tomorrow. I shouldn’t be...
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Smoke
We drank coffee, before you left. Neither of us taste, barely register, its fleeting heat. Your eyes dart over messages, your mind already in another...
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Outta Sight
Getting ready to write some stories on the theme of 'out of sight'.
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Goodness! A nice sense of
Posted on Sun, 01 Mar 2015
Goodness! A nice sense of time and place and an unusual take on The Fitzgerald story. Grim but well written.
Read full commentPosted in Bernice Bobs Her Head
Hard to know what perfection
Posted on Fri, 27 Feb 2015
Hard to know what perfection is, there is so much that is wonderful in imperfection. Love the penitential tone, we do love beating ourselves up. Great prayer of a poem.
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Full of sadness and yearning
Posted on Sat, 28 Feb 2015
Full of sadness and yearning for improvement.
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Lovely, the anticipation of
Posted on Fri, 27 Feb 2015
Lovely, the anticipation of cherry blossom, nothing lasting.
Read full commentPosted in ganja haiku set
Oh, you have this on twice.
Posted on Tue, 24 Feb 2015
Oh, you have this on twice. Lovely story. The lies we have to tell as children to get by and the start of story telling too.
Read full commentPosted in An Essay on Everest
Love the hypnosis idea,
Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2015
Love the hypnosis idea, another gripping read.
Read full commentPosted in The Untold Story of a Grim Reaper: Chapter 12: Ethel & Julius
Shades of Arthur and George,
Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2015
Shades of Arthur and George, great read.
Read full commentPosted in THE BAKER STREET IRREGULAR The first chapter of my new YA book inspired by a true story. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, adopts the tactics of his fictional character and with the aid of a 12-year-old orphan and a Lestrade-type Detective
So Lilli is not so bad
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2015
So Lilli is not so bad,although pretty bad. your novel grwing well and remains intriguing entertaining, I wonder how it can end?
Read full commentPosted in The Untold Story of a Grim Reaper: Chapter 10: Murder Reaper
Goodness, you've been
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2015
Goodness, you've been involved in so many writing projects - He-Man! I could see this except as an animation, it delves into dark places but with some wry humour too, slightly nightmarish. Colonel Koslovsky is quite a character.
Read full commentPosted in Excerpt from DAVID AND THE COLONEL (A true story following a character in my best-selling children's novel "Jacob's Rescue", Random House))
Lovely, I was thinking this
Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2015
Lovely, I was thinking this morning that I was most alive as a child but didn't realise at the time and can only appreciate it as a memory. So much of our living is in dreams.
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