Ray Schaufeld

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I have 110 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 304286 times and 77 of my stories have been cherry picked.
181 of my 2,144 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 182 votes

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My collections

All I want is a room somewhere

Book Reviews, Interviews, non fiction

Elsie's Selection Box

Exmouth - It's the South West's Best Kept Secret

I came to Scotland to study English

Lost and found

Variegated leaves

My stories

7.. Belfast Simon Community 1978 - my first day, the ladies that live here and a hellish staff meeting

By Ray Schaufeld on Thu, 24 Nov 2022

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Dawn breaks and I have a rude awakening. I notice there is hardly any space to store my belongings. When I was on board the ferry from Stranraer to...

Autobiography

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6. Belfast Simon Community 1978 Anton our Founder , a brief biography

By Ray Schaufeld on Wed, 23 Nov 2022

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I signed the black edged Mass card of the founding father of the Belfast Simon Community the day after my arrival at 420 Antrim Road Belfast. I felt...

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5 Belfast Simon Community 1978 - the house shopping one Ideal Stores morning

By Ray Schaufeld on Fri, 11 Nov 2022

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Part 1 We can catch up with the people in our own sweet time. adrain the upright English man, Kate and Steve Leary the cowboys from america, Maiye...

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4. Belfast Simon Community 1978 - I am taken into the office

By Ray Schaufeld on Thu, 27 Oct 2022

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The clean-cut English guy who carried my case and my heavy bag up two flights of stairs was Adrian Clift. He was 23 - the average age for us lot. He...

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3. Belfast Simon Community 1978 - the layout of the building

By Ray Schaufeld on Tue, 25 Oct 2022

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After young Adam had shauchled halfways up the stairs to pass on his message about my arrival to the staff, and sloped off to who knows where in the...

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181 of my comments have received 182 Great Feedback votes

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Fun and my parent's shocked disapproval ah yes

Posted on Wed, 06 Apr 2022

Fun and your parent's shocked disapproval., ah yes.

When I was 19 my flatshare was only 5 miles deeper into London and I came home to Wembley Park for Sunday lunch. Mum and Dad wanted to know all about my new job as a trainee tax collector...

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Loved this. Will love it even more if I hear you reading it.

Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022

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Jupitermoon this is pretty

Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2014

Jupitermoon this is pretty real. I often tell myself that it is a waste of time where I live searching for a man my age as all the singletons are wedded to their pint of beer. You illustrate how this relationship can sometimes be unhappy....

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Posted in not quite AA, but only 12 steps to the bar

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