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Contender
The guy is Zoot suited and Chelsea booted. He is drinking a South African red of a bad year that had travelled via Oslo on waves as tall as the barman's tales. He stands on a floor that is bubblegum sticky in a cloud of Marlboro blue smoke and inhales deeply.
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- 1771 reads
REFRESHING CHANGE?
"What was she doing in your bed?"
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- 1051 reads
Mark.
(This is a true story and a work in progress. Mark is now in Rampton high security hospital 'At her majesty's pleasure.' Surely one of the most chilling phrases in the English language. Mark.
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- 2718 reads
Fetch the Dog
It was a fetch. Of my dog. Fetch the dog. Not funny. If I explained to anyone, they'd say it was the heroin. "It's the heroin! They'd say. Like I was stupid.
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- 1160 reads
Bag of Weasels. Chapter 4.
I got yanked up and scraped over the low wall next to the towpath, spun round and put back on my feet, then looked up into the face of Ralph. "What the fuck do you want? he growled.
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- 1249 reads
Fridge Mountain
Nine-year old Junior Jones discovers the dump for the first time, and its crowning glory -the heap of discarded fridges etc
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- 1284 reads
DAVID.
Still before battle, The giant slayer, petite No modesty leaf.
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- 1421 reads
The Snapper Lady
John was the kind of guy who'd push a beer glass in your face for catching his eye. He was just like that. Especially if he'd had a skin full. John liked his skin full. He'd been like that since he was a kid he was always getting into trouble, he even attacked the teachers at school if they upset him. He didn't go to school much for one reason or another. The teachers didn't mind.
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- 2170 reads
Pain-Things
no one knows or even guesses, the faces so completely together, so known, so famous even....
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- 1467 reads
Thoughts
I hate you sometimes. You deserve to know that. I dream in Technicolor while I am living in shades of gray.
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- 1258 reads
Munch's Silent Scream
haiku competition
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- 1543 reads
Fridge Magnet
Perhaps, sometime, after all this madness with ours hands and tongues......
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- 1174 reads
The growing Beast of the South
after reading an article in the press about the North-South divide
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- 1344 reads
ROMANCE ISN'T FOR EVERYONE
Short fictional poem.
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- 1101 reads
Bar At The Folies Bergere
From a visit to the Courtauld gallery (thanks, Alison!)
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- 1513 reads
shiny shoes
a slightly angry poem about middle-management types
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- 1732 reads
Polly Filler.
THERE ARE REPORTS IN THE MEDIA THAT SO CALLED 'HEALTH FOODS' ARE GIVING SOME CAUSE FOR CONCERN. APPARENTLY AN EXCESS OF POLYUNSATURATES CAN CAUSE HALLUCINATIONS AND STALE MUESLI HAS BEEN FOUND TO CONTAIN TRACE ELEMENTS OF LYSERGIC ACID. LET'S GO AND EXPAND OUR MINDS AND SCORE SOME GRUB.
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- 3435 reads
It's all about you
I found a letter you wrote me last night. It made me cry. Hot, fierce tears that cascaded down my face. i couldn't stop them. You are my biggest regret. The way things ended prematurely, before we'd had a chance. But then at sixteen how was i to know what love was, how was i to know i loved you truely.
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- 1103 reads


