Cherrypicked stories

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Windfall.

We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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The Plan part one

A basement room, five empty cans of Kronenbourg on an office table , two very basic chairs, as devoid of life as Hitler’s bunker. A man paces across...
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Colourful Chorus!

… exciting explosion: explore!
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Haibun for existential dread

An attempt at a haibun that went in a completely different direction from what I expected.
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Missed You.

My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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"Unwanted Magic" 5

The Mom and Dad peddled the tandem bike over the bridge, pulling the wagon behind them with their son, Joey, and the magical dog inside it. Once they...
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Hurricane force twelve

I spent many years at sea, 35 or so. One time we were caught in a force twelve hurricane in the bay of biscay. Our ship was 53.000 tons, but the seas...
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Sparkly Little Paula

I wrote this for International Women's Day but as often, I'm too late for the IP. It's based on a true story of my school friend, Paula Dale.
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More Elaines

Elaine and I barely spoke to each other but memories of this gruff, no-nonsense woman have stayed with me for fifty years.
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Doctor, Doctor ('Dead Reckoning' series - Part 2)

In which Josah's spell as a patient is testing Archibald's patience!
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More n'24 <freestyle>

Here we go in 2024… Tried to scribble one down got a little confused read’n around, read it out loud just to hear the sound… A bit a fear Got a man-...
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Falling

Falling I am no one . White walls washed by sodium light was all I could see. There was a certain kind of claustrophobia that went with the room, a...
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Story of the week

The End - part 2

I am on my final countdown- 6 weeks or less, although I am still feeling pretty good. Two weeks ago I went to the hospital for an MRI scan - and they...
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Cancelled in the afterlife

Maybe now she’s seen me in my own juice sat about picking my nose swearing at the news she doesn’t want to know me. The other year I bumped into one...
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Looking

No explanations. Image is PD.
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Remember to Forget (Part 5)

Together in this strange kiss, the daemon speaks in dreams, tells him his names across the ages: Beelzebub, Ba’al Zabul, the Lord of the Flies...
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The Veteran Speaks ( Time Tunnel Tale #2)

I am a seasoned veteran of the office wars, like Mike Moorcock, or was it Nik Turner, used to declaim, on that old Hawkwind album ‘Warrior on the...
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Love Returned

An example of a Tanka, a Japanese poem of five lines in 5,7,5,7,7. I like the form as it requires brevity within the confines of its structure.
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Poem of the week

I didn't know how much I'd come to love you

It's completely unpolished, but the IP made me think of my mum, who can be an inspiration and a challenge, and I'm feeling nostalgic. It can be bittersweet to find myself growing closer to my parents and at the same time see them grow older, and live in a different country.
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Parcel for you...Part 21

Annie was as much part of the modern world as Spencer, in that she was unsentimental about people’s weaknesses, unsympathetic to the experiences...
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