Cherrypicked stories
Tatiana (part 3 of 3)
It was clear how Olga felt about him. She was like mother. Practical. So, my sister soon swapped her mourning garb for her wedding crown, and mother’s approval...
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Experimental Mishaps
These days, it takes only one small and insignificant explosion to run your weasel experiments.
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Benchmarking
He was so still. That was what made me notice him.
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the illicit
That French way that he sits, with his legs crossed slightly and his arm bent at the elbow while he smokes his cigarette. Mayfair Smooth after the Marlborough became too expensive.
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Chesterfield Chilliness Sorts Things Out
Children Radio Prize Entry
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Learn to love me
Edited
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Uhambo: An African Journey
Everyone is living a journey. Everyone should have goals, but sometimes we manage to acheive things at great heights that we never expected, and seldom appreciate...
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Hiccups (6) - Symptom 9 - entering a pact with the devil
I couldn’t sleep a wink. Not with the squirrels tap-dancing above me.
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Hiccups (5) - Symptoms 5 to 8
We talked for over an hour, until her fried slice went cold and flaccid. Like a greasy, failed, triangular phallus.
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Hiccups (4) - Sypmtom 4 - extra time
By the second night I’d accustomed myself to not sleeping. I lay in the spare bed in my room, headboard banging as I sang my hiccupy tune to myself.
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Abaddon - Chapter 9
Penny Simpson’s notes, May 21, 2010
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Abaddon - Chapter 8
Penny Simpson’s notes, May 20, 2010
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Abaddon - Chapter 7
Penny Simpson’s notes, May 17, 2005
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Quarrel, love and poison
My attempt at this week's inspiration point.
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Half-Forgotten Things.
nostalgia: pain in the neck caused by looking backwards too often. Not suitable for children under 45.
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Hiccups (3) - Symptoms 1 to 3
I hadn’t slept for two nights, so I was bleary eyed, staggering through my work, hiccupping my way through phone calls
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Hiccups (2) - cures 8 to 16
the only ill-judged moment of her life was probably agreeing to go out with me, though don’t quote me on that
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Hiccups (1) - The cures, 1 to 7
breathing in my own exhaled air, which is rich in carbon dioxide
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Roses on the Motel Bed
A poetic memoir of dirty southern abandonment and the allure of the road.
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Old McIvor
Blue slippers lie beside the bed Of old McIvor, long since dead. A briar pipe with twisted stem Stands in a rack with more of them. A silent clock, a bible red, Lie on his locker by the bed,
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