Cherrypicked stories
Nisi
It arrived in a brown envelope. I asked the lawyer to post it. Wasn’t worth the effort to ride the bus into town. Thirteenth of June highlights in...
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Fantastic Plastic!
At first ‘plastic’ meant shoddy, cheap, weak and temporary, but they discovered how to make varieties that were stronger, lasting longer – fantastic...
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Where is the Sun
Where is the Sun that brought out Summer’s sparkle the same one which chased young swimmers across the dock and into a spectacle of placid water? Don...
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"Alone..."
Somber as a cat, stoic, un-moving, eyes fixed, looking out the window. Islands we are not, I remember someone saying, people need people…was that a...
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Waiting for the Flyers. Part 17: A Tour of The Oaks
Sorry for the delay. Been struggling with getting this going again (Pic from wiki commons)
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O Sole Mio (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 36)
The detectives find something fishy and Chantelle and Frankie slip the net.
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Around The Havens
( Pembrokeshire, mid-September) The sea is vast. Wave crests rush in, breaking in white cascade. Invigorating salty sea-air blast. Summer’s end, and...
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Tempestuous Stirrings
No solace found in the night, what wakes and leaves me cowering beneath quilt? My childhood imagination speaks of mischievous fears, spine chilling...
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Summer's Last Weep
Another sweep of wind throws all caution aside and flings bushels of fallen leaves in all-over directions. Time to clean house & prepare for new...
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The End, For Real This Time, Or Is It?
Here's another quick short story that came listening to The Doors and the prompt: "Write a story with an open ending that gives readers just enough...
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The Man in My Bedroom
Recollections of a four-year old (pic taken and edited by me)
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 35
At the Dale View secure mental health facility, Carter Finch had been in isolation for three months. And now he wasn’t. He’d behaved so much like a...
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Unhappy
Haunted by … Hunted by … Hungry for …
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The Dodleston Timelines 1
Gary drove around the village of Dodleston. "You have reached your destination," said the satnav. This could not be the right place. There would...
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BASIC : The Language of Love
What it says. Image author's own.
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 24 (B)
Max had to turn away then, and he brought up blood into the cardboard receptacle next to him. He was weak and lay back on the sheets. Nash was glad...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honewysuckle: Chapter 34 (A)
The hospital was too sterile and too quiet, especially at this time of night. ‘How is he?’ Nash asked. ‘It won’t be long now.’ The nurse was pretty...
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Scratched
In my sleep, darkness grabbed my secrets blending them together like a fine malt whiskey spoilt by cola These were things I kept hidden from everyday...
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