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I have 585 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 698620 times
and 339 of my stories have been cherry picked.
6 of my 106 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 7 votes
My stories
Haiku Five O'
Beside the wet kerb, chips and doner meat sleep deep. Friday fades away. Taxis rear homewards, the ambulance falls silent. A dead one maybe. A kiss...
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Rumours of a Hurricane
The sky is a peculiar shade of mackerel. Not freshly caught, but maybe out of date. A bit like your your ridiculous rationale, ill informed and...
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Us! (for the New Hanbury Creative Writing Project)
We will last. We will see it through to the glorious never ending. We don’t flinch or as Jack Kerouac once wrote, ‘say a commonplace thing’. These...
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Soul Boy
I am fifteen years old, a wedge haircut before Brideshead, a forever flicked fringe, soul blue eyes. It’s 1979, my last summer has gone. I am the...
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Joseph
You told me at bedtime of a secret land, where planes, tanks and troops resided, primed to kill for our republic of Essex. You said tomorrow the...
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