Published in August were:
Jim Bates, Liz Cox, Peter C. Conrad, Niall Crowley, Melanie Ferbreach, Sarah Das Gupta, Jeanne Davies, Nicole Fitton, Maxine Flam, Barry Garelick, Roger Helms, Gill James, Leonie Jarrett, Rosemary Johnson, Dawn Knox, Jeff Laurents, Henry Lewi, Peter Lingard, Mia McNamara, Mari Phillips, Judith Skilleter, Sally Storr, Rachel Turney and S. Nadja Zajdman.
Top performing posts in August were:
On the Spur by Niall Crowley, instant coffee 229
Matthew loves trains, the best and only way to travel. The onboard tannoy alerts, engines discharge and the carriage shudders into life....
A Shot at Deception by Melanie Ferbreach, iced lemon tea 134
first published in the Autumn 2023 edition of Scribble, Park Publications Bruce shifted in his electric wheelchair, surprised at the time...
Paderewski the Piano Player by Barry Garelick, lemonade 108
Marie and Daniel were both twenty eight, in the mid-seventies in San Francisco – a time and place, as Daniel would remember it, when almos...
Whatever Works by Jim Bates, iced tea 95
We were walking along a favorite woodland path when I turned to Mom and asked, “Say, I was wondering. What’s your favorite memory?
In the Anglo Realm, the year 2,100 by Sally Storr, royal bubble tea, 79
The year 2,100
As millions of us do a virtual file past Charley’s coffin, we are genuinely distraught. People contain their sobs but you can tell by their faces and the way they are walking that we are a very sad Realm. We have lost a very dear soul, but the legacy she has left us is exceptional. She has taught us to be kind, generous and empathic to all those in our society. Gifts we can pass on to our own children.
Total hits in August were 95,215, almost double those of July. At the time of writing, 3 September 2024, we have 6941 so quite promising. Keep on sharing. It does seem that we get most of our hits in the final week of the month. A week ago we only had about 20,000.