Cherrypicked stories
I'm tired of talking, Cecilia
A small snippet from a series of short stories I'm writing about a coven of witches. Magical shenanigans and lots of drama. Content notes: panic attack, mild swearing.
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Windswept Serenade
The raucous wind creates a shuffle of movement as it spawns a parade of roiling clouds sun & this new intruder clash for attention on a fresh...
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Mid-Winter
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/mid-winter-mp3 Mid-Winter Constellations whisper in aphonic skies, a myriad of stars on dark...
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I chose to bathe in light
I made a big mistake I didn't choose the tallest I didn't choose the fattest Your brothers joked on our wedding day I've replied over and over in my...
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Walk In December Snow
Most alluring are rise and fall of remote hills, when steeped in views of earth thickly clad with snow; Wandering where we're lost for a while,...
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Your Mutual Aid Hourly Pay Insults My Intelligence
I remind Annie that we may leave the house for four reasons only: to shop for medical supplies, to – I won’t list the reasons. Since last Tuesday...
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COLD
Cold seeps through crevices that grow between the window and the wall. Like vines that creep into existence; enveloping and overwhelming, entwining...
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Thrill
What a surprise … It looks like we’ve seen in books. What funny stuff! Is it enough …
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A Confederacy of C*ntses
Image created by me from PD elements Audio available.
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flowers you made
I buried those knickers knuckle deep in the earth to cover the shame of my soul. Some things are bigger than how you remember them. Evictions used to...
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May you live all the days of your life
I read this out at the fabulous night abc tales organised on sunday the 11th. it was a great night and there were a lot of brilliant stories, poems, and songs shared. thank you abc tales!
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Lightning-Sky
An image pastes itself across a restless evening as a sky embraces minions of wind & rain thrusting with a mighty plan jagged edges of fear...
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The Frog and Crumpet
In which Archibald feels the cold and Josiah takes a grave view.
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Afterglow
Twigs stretching high to scratch the sky, sun’s remaining red hue across the deepening evening blue …
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Frontline
After your shift, you strip outside in darkling light, where an ill wind immured me. Your shadowed face, indented and chafed. ‘It’s all around,’ you...
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The Last Wish of Christmas
The Last Wish of Christmas Fate unwinds its own path. The truth is, I haven’t always been a dog. Appearances can be deceptive. The lights from the...
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[untitled]
You have learned the fine art of loving the imperfect, perfect bloom in the heart of agony. As we pause at the edge of this last utter place the...
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Would I Be A Tree
Would I be a tree under December moon that's Delicately illuminating Night, casting shadows As clouds from north Float on by until they Wear...
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The Coming of Industry to Cornwall
They were people, but not as you and I, in that nineteenth century haze who saw the native hills erupt around them, fields that had been pregnant an...
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Barley Ghosts
Something stalks where no man ever whispered, twisted the stem after harvest here, where land has always been arable. Reaping, ploughing, sewing...
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