Cherrypicked stories
Found
I found what I was looking for At least what I wished to find What anyone wants to find Is what I already found You helped me find it To find what I...
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- 607 reads
Memory of Omagh
Soft rolling under moist palm a ball of hate that was pliable to the touch it was thrown by grey time and caught off guard in an unwrapped era that...
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- 1593 reads
I am...
I am the message bleeping on your phone That irritates while you drive I am your favourite song on cassette the stereo chewed while playing I am the...
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- 1336 reads
Mess
I never throw anything away. Pictures from playgroup dumped in the backs of cupboards hoarded felt-like rumples crossed with greasy crayon marks. I...
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- 899 reads
When I Dream Of Home
When I dream of home, it's of that flat where we lived till I was 16, with its not quite smooth brown wood doors whispering across the carpet, each...
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- 658 reads
ALL THE PEOPLE IN CHINA (The China Bomb)
If everyone in China was to jump in the air at the same time
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- 1153 reads
Colours I saw, walking
The sky overhead is lilac; bright lapiz lazuli swirled higher. Through bare twigs of beech a band of pale copper spreads above the curves and grooves...
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- 1059 reads
Yours Truly
Not quite happy with this one ..any thoughts&;#063;
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- 732 reads
War
Ask me why each morning I get up and put on the gloves And ask me again, why each morning I get up and fight the sun. Then ask me why even when He...
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- 712 reads
White-knuckle ride
another poem of love and loss
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- 860 reads
Dominic (his day of fate)
an experiment in style...
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- 1126 reads
Small Miracles
Changing the world...
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- 685 reads
Chairperson
How a wheel clamper meets his match
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- 1247 reads
Z= Unorthodox World of Mister Glass
The e-griff edit - crabs, uncles and magic
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- 1214 reads
A Sense Of Place
Beauty - ugliness lay side by side, Like the interwoven yin/yang. Holding hands, dancing - they Create the urban world together. Architectural...
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- 658 reads
A Letter To a Completely Good Teacher
Provides explanation to late paper and the reason some dogs are addicted to them.
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- 1528 reads
Pursuit by John Calder
John Calder's memoirs of 50 years in publishing
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- 736 reads
Party Animal
Party Animal the click of the shutter will taunt him - a negative to tut over in hungover debriefings the pop of the cork will haunt him - something...
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- 715 reads
Piano Tuner
The piano tuner came today. In another room I sat listening as he made each note glisten like new snow and when he'd done I opened my eyes and was...
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- 1084 reads