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I have 575 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 631675 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
Me and Bobby Moore
Met you in a single carriage on a late train to Southend. Just me and you, the slashed up seats. You were their manager then. but you could not cut...
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- 1323 reads
Some Kind Of Haiku
Your memory creeps up As if a whistle from a distant train It crashes
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- 1261 reads
A Bed Unmade (for Ruth)
A bed unmade as if robbed of order. We stand in the hallway jacketed and keyed itching to scratch once more. Out in the street we take hands and...
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- 1671 reads
Mapping The Heart
I find you in the library scribbling on rough paper your sad, sad map of the world. I snatch your pen draw a heart on your shirt. You recoil a loaded...
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- 1387 reads
Swept
The wind wraps me in to you. And I can stand this. For I am swept again. This isn't melancholy, crashing a wave, a lost riptide. I am clear on that. All of that.
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- 1683 reads