Cherrypicked stories
Boy meets girl
Boy meets girl. First week at uni. Boy and girl indifferent to each other. Boy introduces girl to another boy. Boy meets another girl. Girl drinks...
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Wordrush, thoughtcess
Shoot from the hip, quick have your say so many openings to comment today, don’t pause for thought, or listen – you ought to think of the reasons...
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Is this the real life?
These are the most beautiful moments of his day. When the blue-white light falls gently and benevolently on the worn cherry wood parquet floor. So...
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I Shot the Sheriff ('Dead Reckoning' series - Part 3)
Detective Inspector Wood has a 'war wound' in need of attention whilst D.S. Stone has spotted someone 'known to the police'.
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What's Not Written
How can I prepare to welcome new verses when lapse of memory chases days and nights; voices floating; emotions longing to be carried in flight,...
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The Spa
The Spa I blame him. Why didn't he see? Surely there were enough clues. At first, in the beginning, we were so close. Soul mates! What a ridiculous...
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Remembering Corrie ten Boom
Courage when the Nazis invaded their land – to stay. Courage when offering to hide Jews – pray, pray. Courage when making a secret room – willl...
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Sean Happens.
‘Yer little friends are no so little noo,’ said Auntie Evie. She was skinny, dark haired and exhausted looking, but not as exhausted look as my mum...
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Parcel for you...Part 22
The air in the car was filled with the familiar scent of Annie, a stuffy mix of patchouli and clothing which had been put away slightly damp. Despite...
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The Moon Maiden
This poem is based on a Japanese folktale about a childless couple – a bamboo cutter and his wife – who are given an infant by the Moon Maiden. It is...
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14.1 Journey of Ascension
In the height of the short summer, potatoes did bring no bloom, berries and mushrooms were not ripe. It was cold and the stove kept them warm...
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The Little Lady
I think I deserved a little whisky and water to help me through the interviews. We’d agency doing the cleaning, but I’d told my wife it would be...
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We Never Speak of Rose
We do not speak of Rose, who was deposed from middle management, who went or was made to go, who knows? We will not mention Rose, who was with us for...
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Too Many Tabs Open
I’ve got too many tabs open in my head. Even at night I don’t close them just in case they disappear forever. A classmate I admired, the name of a...
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The Plan part two
At the airport he is met by precisely no one. He doesn’t exit the car till he’s at the foot of some stairs leading up to a large unmarked aero plan e...
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13.1 Queen of Evidence
Ariadna learnt about the tragedy that took place in Yelabuga many years later. Samuel Gurevich, or Mulia as called in the family, wished to calm her...
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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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