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I have 88 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 560881 times and 90 of my stories have been cherry picked.
75 of my 2,237 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 78 votes

Coral Jane

Mother and Daughter.

I joined Abctales in 2010 and my daughter Julia a year later (2011). Unfortunately due to ill health, despite having been a prolific writer since childhood, she only managed to post a small number of pieces whilst active on the site. Following her unexpected and preventable death in 2016, I posted more of her poems on my own account under her username, which seemed a logical step at the time.

In 2019 her entire body of work was published by Cerasuspoetry.com in a book entitled WAITING FOR ANOTHER VELVET MORNING, which is still available on Amazon (proceeds to charity}. Her original work still remains on her account Overthetop.

I don't write as much now, though the occasional piece pops up once in a while.

Coral Jane Macpherson (seashore)
Julia Jane Macpherson (Overthetop1) deceased in 2016

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Killing the killers

By seashore on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

Not for the faint-hearted. Just a way of releasing the anger regarding the preventable death of my daughter resulting from the side effects of a drug now known to be responsible for over 400 deaths a year.

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AND SO IT IS

By seashore on Mon, 30 Nov 2020

And so it is as a planet mourns and the grey sleepless days and nights of grief and isolation build to an inevitable crescendo In Spring, the daily...

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Blue

By seashore on Wed, 16 Nov 2016

The recent loss of my firstborn has brought back the pain of another loss...

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Branwell Clinic

By seashore on Sat, 15 Oct 2016

As I'm finding it difficult to write at the moment, I will continue to let my daughter Julia (Overthetop1) live on through her own writing, until I am ready. Coral Jane (seashore).

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One-armed combat

By seashore on Mon, 26 Sep 2016

Yet another of Julia's posthumous pieces (Overthetop1). Hard-hitting, but that's the way she was.

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75 of my comments have received 78 Great Feedback votes

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...and you doubt your skill

Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2025

...and you doubt your skill as a poet?? Don't ever do that again Terry, this is simply brilliant x

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Posted in Fathoms Above

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So pleased for you Terry (and

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023

So pleased for you Terry (and for me and my girl too) x

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Posted in You Never Said

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No you may not be fine, but

Posted on Thu, 20 Oct 2016

No you may not be fine, but your description of not being fine, resonates.

I'm not fine either by the way.

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Posted in Anxiety

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I notice in your somewhat

Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025

I notice in your somewhat random list for my birthday 24th Feb (already several years beyond the average lifespan) you start with Geordies wear jumpers.

Indeed this adopted Geordie can be seen wearing one all year round, despite no longer...

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Posted in The Archers in Cyrillic Script

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Golden cherries very well

Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Golden cherries very well deserved. I love lighthouses anyway, they fascinate me.

This piece is beautifully crafted. Needed my thesaurus to interpret some of the words I'd never heard of but I love words anyway,so sometimes the sounds...

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Posted in The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo

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