Cherrypicked stories
Goatie 28
I woke up choking with terror, and felt like a good drink, or even a bad drink like Eldorado, the way a gourmet chef dreams of the perfect meal. Even...
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Blueberry
‘She’s the cutest puppy I’ve ever seen.’ ‘I know, mum.’ Thomas nodded his head, there were tears in his eyes and an emotional rosy flush across his...
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Through Our Country Window
Through Our Country Window Rivulets stream thinly down landscape sheerness falling as a multiplicity of confetti drops bubbling & sprinting onto...
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Goatie 27
Cramp below my right knee, shuttled my torso along the soaking mattress. I twisted and turned and cursed to fuck and back. A memory bobbed to the...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 18 (b)
They went back to Paige. ‘You say you never saw Paige again, but you did go back looking for her, didn’t you? Did you find her? This girl very much...
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A Dignified Exit
Everything slowed as he saw the other guy pulling his arm back ready to launch the punch. This was it, decision time. He could bob and weave, duck...
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The machinery of night
“The fact that humanity still has some future is thanks to me!” Without batting an eyelid, the Dictator informs me of his opinion. He looks at me as...
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The Hungry Years
The Hungry Years - By Paul McCann So many alleyways so many streets , so many places , no one ever eats . Corner shop cafes , coffee and sweet treats...
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Goatie 26
The screech of the prison panic alarm had me going. The sound of running feet. Hardened souls flexed their muscles. I hid under the sheets until they...
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Black Grape Cat Disorder
Osem our cat is black and white He’ll eat whatever comes in sight He eats all day and he eats all night No bounds exist to his appetite He eats...
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Under Pressure (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 27)
In which Lawrence and Amber find themselves in a tight spot and Frankie is left feeling a little flat!
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Nana and Grampa (c 1950-1960)
Nana: Round and jolly … Grampa: Slow and gentle (slow wink) hen-pecked?…
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agriphila straminella
"... rather plain looking.... Habitat : Grassy areas almost anywhere... ...easily disturbed" with silk-cool shock, they rise pale as ghosts of yellow...
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Our Man in Golubac
As sweat ran down my temples the man at the other end of the telephone line told me that he spoke Bulgarian, which came as a massive relief to me...
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Goatie 25
I kept my eyes on the door. Aware she was behind me, growing like a wave on the sea, but it would be me that left no trace when she was gone. I had...
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Goatie 24
‘Yeh hink dogs can by psychic?’ Archie pondered. I wasn’t sure if he was talking to himself or me. I was going to keep silent, but muttered, ‘Dunno...
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In A Place Of Respite
In forest dream, I draw on such sensations, my world suspended between sky and earth; where tiny insects crawl, some fly to unhurried silence,...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 18 (a)
It was getting harder to keep a lid on things—stories leaked from the incident room every day, things that only the team had access to. Paranoia was...
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Goatie 23
Being in prison was like dossing under a motorway bridge. Constant noise and always something going on. Shaking you up. Droopy Eyes talking about...
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‘As useful as a chocolate teapot!'
I’m a chocolate teapot looking swell; but for tea I’m useless – heat will tell! Collapsing in hot water – I will keep cool and idle, or I’m soon a...
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