Cherrypicked stories
In Missouri
Beeping... Yellow plasma. Treacle tubes and scarlet drains. I was all thick jumpers and rehearsal rooms. All jelly stubble and guitars. I take it...
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- 713 reads
Links
A golfer stands at the doorstep of history and remembers the past.
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- 987 reads
Buddha Ball
I don't know what to say really. It's kind of funny. Hopefully it has some sort of commentary, too
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- 622 reads
A Break in the Clouds
I rose slowly and turned away. My tears drying swiftly in that bitter wind. It was at that moment she chose to answer me, as the clouds parted and...
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- 1065 reads
Haggis
In the moors and over the glen , running around are wee hairy men . Their eyes are small and their ears stick out . Lock your doors if you hear them...
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- 853 reads
Corpse
'I was fourteen years old when I saw my first corpse'.
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- 660 reads
G) Cinemascope
for anyone who goes to the movies in the afternoon
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- 881 reads
Mum
She smiled as she told me The fighting would stop, But chewed at the skin round her nails. She took a deep breath, When she said we should leave But...
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- 809 reads
Teeth matter
does buddha have teeth in new york&;#063;
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- 599 reads
A Tendency of The Ladybird
A Tendency of The Ladybird It's only on warm summer days when you look closely at ladybirds through a magnifying glass that you realise they have...
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- 853 reads
The Seer
This, will happen, the seer says. I mock her, teasing, Time will con-test. No use messing, she smiles with sympathy, It's your path, your destiny...
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- 625 reads
F**k The Millennium
The Future Never Happened Chapter I: In which a young man is introduced and a lie is revealed
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- 3508 reads
Shore
SHORE Level down to the wet flats And feel the edge of an island sink Where soft skin breaks Away from the hard town People like little pegs in the...
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- 643 reads
White Shock of Hair
The white shock of hair like a wisp of buttercream or the smoke leaving Charlie's cigarette as she talks in her Manchester accent. Tina says it...
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- 885 reads
O) Rotting Dean
Rotting Dean, found ravaged by badgers in the woods outside Chorley. Organs dragged for miles. Intestines tied in knots and used as a skipping rope...
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- 789 reads
Quiet: 1.15am.
1:15am was sublime but it only lasted a minute. It just occured to me as my optic nerve sensed a person moving and my teeth gritted through the pane...
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- 791 reads
Cherubs From Sony
There was an influential cocktail of people assembled all under one roof. They all own property and sip liberally from exotic drinks. The tuxedos are...
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- 785 reads
Funfair: The River Caves
Sitting in a bar while rain taps like fetid nails on the glass. A lightning flash shows me a figure from the past. I wave my hand at him and he's...
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- 794 reads