TheShyAssassin
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I have 164 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 80313 times
and 22 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Andy Pickering
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My stories
Bedtime - The Story of Super-Badger-Repair-Man (For A Very Young Child)
Hello Anais! It’s Grandpa here! And it’s time for bed now so settle down and get warm and cosy and I’ll tell you a bedtime story while you fall...
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- 94 reads
Even Croesus Had To Sleep
The billions have nothing The billionaires the lot. Sorry won’t be enough. A bowl of pasta once a day, While rocket ships just fly away. Sorry won’t...
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First To Wake
Still like death, Except for breath. I’d die but wake her now.
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Transatlantic
I loved you for a while, In autumn, in fall. Too warm. Delphiniums bloomed. I loved you for a time, In winter, in Texas. Too cold. The powerlines...
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Parental Advisory - Part Two
Teas are sipped and biscuits are nibbled. I quietly muse on my mother’s ability to conjure a mortal slight from the thinnest of air. Then she starts...
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