Cherrypicked stories
The Back (Part 1)
“I need to speak with your manager.” Those were the words that left a young supermarket employee with no recourse but to grab the walkie-talkie off...
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"The Coffee House Spy" 8
Thies was about to reveal the location of Russ’s apartment contents when the sound of a knock filtered through the room but it hadn’t come from the...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 8
“It is a new twist knowing Daphne isn’t who I’d thought she was and is in fact, Perfidia’s cousin,” Avery recounted sourly as he sat down with a...
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The Old Witch
Easter poem.
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7 brothers
A tale of 7 overprotective brothers who didn't need to be! (twist in the end!)
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the premature college student
College at 11
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Charlotte
Some heartwarming flash fiction!
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Waiting For the Flyers Pt7 (David Walsham - 2)
Our laughter turned to reflection. What a strange world we’d been born into. Both of us remnants of a time never to return. One trapped in a place...
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Goatie 4
The intercom is broken. Hughie can’t buzz me in, but somebody has solved the problem by wedging a brown bin in front of the reinforced door. I’ve...
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"The best laid plans..." (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 11)
In which plans are made and disrupted, but not necessarily in that order!
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Shame
Shame I’ve tried to outstep the shame of this. Even now the guilt piles high like records racked on an old Dansette. I was a youth lost in a bedroom...
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Predictive
Bloody predictive text
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Goatie 3
I slept tranquilly. It gets to the stage where you become acclimatised to anything. Even prisoners at Auschwitz slept soundly. I’m in pretend mode...
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Goatie 2
I ponder my sleep-walking predicament. Apparently, I’m superhuman able to drink a glass of water without waking. I remember a case in which a man had...
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Marcus
Some moving flash fiction.
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Brean Down
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/brean-down Brean Down Gulls suspended in silence - mid-flight, gliding high over spume-dashed...
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Goatie
MIASMA. That’s the word I was trying to remember. It’s all a bit stupid. It doesn’t really exist in the same way it did then as an invasive force. But you’ve still got the hangover of the word hanging like a bad smell.
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The Forgotten Vegetable 2
The answer is 81, in case anyone's asking...
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The Forgotten Vegetable 1
A bit obnoxious, yes, but it explores the zeitgeist and stuff.
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The King of Goosey Lake (Conclusion)
After the sun set, tiki torches were lit up and lined the park. The fish fry was an enormous success. Anyone who wanted seconds was able to get it...
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