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I have 582 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 775734 times
and 334 of my stories have been cherry picked.
7 of my 104 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 8 votes
My stories
A Sharp Intake
A Sharp Intake Realisations are sometimes horrific. The empty biscuit tin, the final scrape of butter. The dirty penny from the jar. Breath, when...
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- 574 reads
Onset
I wish I owned a big house with a big wall so that everyone I love and have ever loved were all inside, safe, sound and warm. Because a storm has...
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The Paint Stained Screamer (after David Hockney)
He’s always been tricks of light, you know. Los Angeles, the East Yorkshire Wolds. A right caution in his naughty boy days: a bug eyed, paint stained...
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- 328 reads
What Thought Did
What Thought Did My heartbreak thought that to smoke crack would take away the pain. ‘ Just one more little rock.’ My mother thought that to drink...
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Alice Springs 1999
Alice Springs 1999 Here. On the other side of the world, the truth is over exposed for history’s whim. A discoloration. Here. The locals sneer at the...
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- 303 reads