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The Portrait Prologue: "Did you have to buy such an expensive gift for Hank? Debbie asked. Robert sighed. He drove his Mercedes out of the parking lot and turned left. " For the umpteenth time, yes. Hank is my best friend and it's his birthday today. He's going to love it.

National novel writing month (chapters 7 and 8 - unedited)

Chapter 7 Joe, on the defence. Joe was curious about the favour Lance was asking about, but forgot about it as he entered the office the next day. Peter was pacing around his office as joe sat at his desk and fired up his PC. Peter beckoned

Four Step

Sliding solo. Beat ten and blow. Flamenco heel, the clicking toe. Spinning meanness, soft shell shuffle. From mirror ball, to Spanish hustle. A powdered nose Columbian twist. This ugly man,

"Ride The Donkey" - Chapter 1 ' Shafted by Bastards. A Taste of Tit.

..... My head drops, as euphoric sleep threatens to engulf me, transporting me into times long passed. Eyelids flicker, jaw twitches: I am back there, reliving youthful events - seeing visions of Angie, the insatiable Sally, and all my other girls for hire. 'My little mares' - The thoughts and visions produce a sigh. Unconsciously, one hand reaches to caress a nubile breast, and then slowly lowers, as memory morphs into another mental image. In indecent haste, each in turn flashes vividly by ' Patricia, who took my virginity, and the girls whose virginal cherries I plucked - the happy apparitions smile at me. I smile back, recalling sensuously their sexual expertise. My hand moves automatically to cover my stirring loins....

"TICIANITA ARABELLA WOBELLS-ARLOTT" Tales

These are stories about Ticianita Arabella Wobbles-Arlott' Her friends call her 'Tish'. She has a talking Kitten 'Kitty'. Tish comes from a rather 'Posh' English family. ( Her Papa is a VERY important man. ) Tish has a series of exciting adventures. She meets Fairies; Elves; Santa Claus; Space Men; Kings and Queens- among others. Her adventures take her to castles, an 'old tyme fayre', into the desert, the seaside, a camping holiday, and many more adventures around the world - and even out to planets in Space! Each Chapter is a Complete Story, told as 'Bedtime Stories', by a Father to his children. The story starts one morning when Tish is discovers that she has lost her Tummy Button in the bath. Fortunately The Man In The Moon glides down a moonbeam and replaces it with a special Magical Silver Tummy Button. By reciting a verse, and twisting it ' One Turn to the Right ', Tish is granted three wishes each day until her sixteenth birthday.
Cherry

IT ISN'T OVER TILL THEY PULL THE PLUG

You'll see a great change in him, his sister said, allowing him to go first into the ward. She didn't say - specially since you haven't been here since last year - but it was implied. In the high side hospital bed, Brian's father appeared to be already dead. Waxen, bluish eyelids, sweeping glossy black eyebrows, fine prominent nose. He seemed his old handsome self again, spruced up, ready to meet his maker No longer the dishevelled, unkempt, unshaven, huddled bundle, chain smoking in front of the television, lost in the imaginary community he had come to rely on for company, resenting unwanted visitors who asked him silly questions during his favourite programmes

LAST TRAIN THROUGH ALTON TOWER

'There's an old man sitting on a platform chair, And he feels the breeze as it ruffles his hair, And he stares at the bushes and the weeds where the rails should be;'

GATES OF GLORY

'He'd worked on the footplate for forty long years, he remembered the sweat and he remembered the tears, And he remembered the thrill of just being alive, with a full head of steam on an old Black Five;'

For readers only

Who is beyond every writing? A beardless punk who's smiling?

"Wendy and Patrick's Monster Adventure." - modern Fairystory.

As their eyes got used to the dim violet light Wendy screamed. Patrick simply froze. ....They were in a large cargo hold. Just a few feet in front of them was the largest most terrifying creature they could ever imagine. It was looking right at them, and opened its fearsome mouth wide. Just then Grat's voice came through a speaker set in the wall. "Have no fear of the Sea Dragon; it is held secure inside a magna-cage. If you reach out you can feel the cage. It is like a one-way mirror. You can see inside, but the Dragon cannot see out. He carried on speaking and sounded as if he was working,

She Walked in Beauty

...still walks in a beauty even dreams can't beat.

"Ride The Donkey" - prepare to be shocked...

Be warned: It is absolutely raw. It is a 'no punches pulled' and 'just as it happened' frank record of one man's life. (And what a man). It is in no way reading suitable for minors, prudes, or the faint-hearted. Whilst the early pages mostly give an illuminating historical insight into life in England during the 1930's and 1940's for those country kids born into poverty, do not be lulled into any sense of security. As the story unfolds, the many explicit sex situations are so graphically described in some profusion, that the combined contents of the Karma Sutra, Marquis de Sade, James Joyce, and Arthur Miller's works pale into insignificance. This is 'hands on' and unexpurgated. The first part - 'Book One' ' is what many will consider a catalogue of evil. It is the biography of a youth hell bent on monetary gain and sexual self-gratification. And of the mostly teenage nymphomaniacs who formed his stable of call-girls, whores, and adult-show performers. He made the girls rich, and in doing so amassed a fortune of his own whilst still a teenager.

Fireworks

I'm frankly shocked that there aren't more fireworks poems on the site following on from last Saturday,

ANOTHER "Ugly duckling"

Another ugly Duckling I'm sure you all know about the little ugly duckling that grew to be a beautiful swan; well this is about a little girl all the other children thought was ugly:

we all are dreamers

shattered in despair when your dreams dont come lost all hope and care when your dreams dont come and we all are dreamers is it fame or freedom or just a better place is it an adventure or a utopia

God Can't Help A Mind Made Up

Click. Click. Knock.

Unwritten Letter

Maybe I need some time to remember what it was like to just be your friend. Or maybe I need some of you.

Attempting Life

I'm unhappy. But why? This ... I do not know

Western

Greaseproof tumbleweed skits across Castle Square. Clopping hooves in the pedestrianised area. The bins freeze, mid-vomit, dripping polystyrene and strawberry milkshake. Nutrition speckles the paving: unwanted slats of limp gherkin. The jockey rides in topless, his muscular, pitted chests thrown back with each five-fingered pull from a Marlboro red. Poppered trousers tucked into white socks. A matted horses rustled from Mayhill scrubland. The boy gunslings a bottle of Fairy Liquid, beaming lime in to the fountains burbling fringe. Things turn a bit sci-fi. An octopus froth swells from the depths. Glooping out in all directions. The jockey looks around to see if anybody has anything to say. We watch him, disapproving and jealous as he gallops home passed John Lewis.

Relief

You turn me over slow as a clam surfacing and for air between my thighs,

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