ralph
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I have 575 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 631311 times
and 323 of my stories have been cherry picked.
5 of my 95 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 6 votes
My stories
Season
The first bee of spring swerves in a garden unkempt by winter and the unborn. I stand at this back door – shaken, considering those sunflowers of our...
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- 315 reads
Degrees of Difficulty
There was a girl I used to know who would swallow dive on to her four poster bed in times of excitement. She’d start her run in the hallway – ensure...
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- 208 reads
Ways
And now I think of my friend Stevie on an early train from York to London. Learning the words to ‘True Love Ways’ for his open audition for ‘Buddy...
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Great Horton Swan Song
From high up upon their sacred hill. They’ve sat watching me twist mad, thin and ill. Because I’ve felt horrors that they’ll never conceive. Away I...
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Swimmer
Land, where are you now? This queasy, diseased sea has jettisoned me deep. I wash in salted water. Smash the days with fists. Worry the horizon,...
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- 189 reads