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I have 41 stories published in
one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 37822 times
and 21 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1 of my 35 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2 votes
Steve
My stories
Chiesa di San Giacomo Maggiore
I lit a candle in front of the fierce gilt of the Madonna, in the still air. The church was massive and filled with silence, and, although I knew that you were not there
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The dead crane at Battersea
hangs rusty chains in the January wind, strapped, a loose Ulysses at the edge of the Thames, hearing no song, massive and bowed. Tomorrow’s dawn will lap light
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A photograph of you sitting on a white plastic seat on the Hook of Holland/Harwich ferry in the midday sunlight on August 13th
Although I never said exactly what I was thinking, and although I realise that twenty-three years is a long time to have waited and the moment may not be as fresh
blue gunpowder starring
there is slow dynamite watch the blue gunpowder starring flashes and bursts beyond the road we drive along in separate cars it is a shared moment a controlled
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Sonnet
The poet, thinking about how to write some scene describing plain working class life, invents Dave, arriving home, tea-time, tired from a day’s heavy banter, as daylight
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