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I have 588 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 720711 times
and 345 of my stories have been cherry picked.
6 of my 109 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 7 votes
My stories
She
And I walk alone in a city wept of its men and what we do. Last week, in early Spring, I ’ d cock my head, maybe smile. But here, as if a Crocus. I...
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- 580 reads
Kid B
Radiohead can’t help you now. As your MacBook loses its sheen. Breaths are sampled through bleeped hours. A country coughs in twinkled green.
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- 268 reads
Fork (after Robert Frost)
Five years and I’m back in the middle of this. The lipstick, cocaine traces and cheap tequila are the weapons of her dislocation. She beckons me from...
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- 266 reads
Gloria
The diggers at Black Cross waiting for grief that climbs its reason hilltop bound. Sting of the hot funeral tear, cold rain on wild-red curly hair...
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What I Heard in Sharrow Vale
Now then! In December 1950 Pablo Picasso visited Sheffield for a hair cut and some peace. It was as cold as cubism that day at Butlers Café. They say...
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- 257 reads