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I have 576 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 638841 times
and 326 of my stories have been cherry picked.
5 of my 97 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 6 votes
My stories
Alice Springs 1999
Heavy is a big stone in my pocket that I want to throw in a river. But cannot because it means something more than memory. He was a black boy in the...
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The Comer Inner
January at Bretton with our hats on. You look at me warmly. ‘That one’s by Gormley’, you say. ‘I adore Moore’, I reply. ‘Stop trying so hard’. You...
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Swordfish and Shave
The second-hand flicked past the fingers of midnight and the 'Swordfish and Shave' was emptying for the
night. There were just a few whining actors...
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- 551 reads
Chemistry
A chemist in Hackney. I had acne. You, a yeast infection. Oh how we laughed! Ha ha ha.. On reflection I shouldn’t have mentioned that political...
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The Sad Tale of Coleman 'The Shaker' Slim
‘Man alive! This weather. There are stories of him in this here Jazz history. But you’ll have to look hard (maybe too hard) to find them. Libraries...
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