Cherrypicked stories
Tainted Face
A young girl finds herself a victim of abuse and is forced into a life of prostitution. (Since this story is based in India, the names and places might have weird pronunciations.)
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- 613 reads
Playtime Twaddle
This one sits best along side its illustrations (think poor man's Spike Milligan) but I thought I'd post it anyway.
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- 577 reads
Love Letter
Great excitement at Christie's in New York, as a newly discovered love letter by Frank Sinatra goes up for auction.
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- 8 comments
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- 1980 reads
Revised - Something She Did
A revised biographical piece about a boy seeing another side to his elderly relative on the day of her funeral
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- 313 reads
All at Sea
All at sea. The cockroaches nest in my head As the snakes lose their charm I can’t remember what’s been said And I saw nothing in my palm Upstream fights my mood
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- 634 reads
I never learned to party,
party, face-ache, talking cat, crumpets.
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- 1494 reads
The Man Who Greeted Strangers
Ian Cathcart decides one day to be a bit more friendly with the man and woman in the street. His life becomes slightly (but only slightly) more interesting than it usually is.
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- 1036 reads
What's the Time?
Only tange n tially connected to the IPOW
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- 1120 reads
A baker falls over
It's like the time I was in the marketplace and a baker fell over
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- 1010 reads
Erwin and the Multi-Coloured Trousers
Children Radio Prize Entry
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- 1506 reads
Forgetting that
edited
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- 12 comments
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- 2010 reads
The Special One
‘Where am I?’ gasped Sylvester.
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- 518 reads
Ali Bizarre
Sometimes storybook characters should just stay in their storybooks!
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- 574 reads
Merry Christmas, Benjamin Ormsley!
Children Radio Prize Entry
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- 2 comments
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- 1548 reads
Jumpers for Goalposts
We used to have a saying "whatever doesn't kill you can only make you stronger". That's so true man. The summer of '76. Well that saw a few people off, I can tell you.
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- 1767 reads
This is a Bubble
200 words.
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- 1649 reads
Hey Joe...
So, label me a whore, Joe... feed the gossip, fuel the lies!
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- 2727 reads
After the Fires Part 1
Post-apocalyptic fixion.
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- 837 reads
The Reluctant Nomad
Jack has a problem. He wants to rebel against his upbringing. But how can he do it if his upbringing was pretty anti-establishment in the first place?
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- 1104 reads
Abaddon - Chapter 28
7: La Chute
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- 763 reads