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I have 254 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 137795 times
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Hazel McSporran
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10,839 Steps
I estimate, on the Beaufort scale, that the sea was ‘slight’ today, the breeze ‘gentle’. What did the sea sound like? Whispering kids at bedtime who...
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Chuwl (Hebrew: to dance in a whirl)
Friday evening, full moon waning, the haar cleared, returning the hills to the town. Sun peeped through and a cooling breeze blew the last ghostly...
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Dolce Far Niente?
We need good rest, and to appreciate the ‘sweetness of doing nothing’. But pretty soon nothingness gets irritating, and starts to hurt your back...
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Nostos (Greek: homecoming)
Liberation is my thing. It’s a conundrum. Sometimes freedom, sometimes loneliness. That particular sweet freedom in coming home. Ancient Greeks...
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Ridiculous to the Sublime
After the underworld, a journey heavenward to Kelvingrove Art Gallery, visiting paintings I’ve known since childhood. Generations of Scottish...
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