Cherrypicked stories
In/Convenience
I didn’t expect to end my life sat on a toilet. As I drift in and out of consciousness I’m vaguely aware of Shaking Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone...
- Read more about In/Convenience
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1920 reads
Lost In Acton

I’m an old man now. I’ll be Eighty One in two weeks time. Still fit and healthy though. Walk to the shops everyday to get my shopping. Shoes polished...
- Read more about Lost In Acton
- 7 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3422 reads
Paranoia

Monday 5th of December 2016, 9:12 pm. Dear Diary, today was just a current day, nothing much happened. Studying in the morning, working on the...
- Read more about Paranoia
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 413 reads
Christmas Every Day

Following The Boy’s funeral I went to live with Mona for a week, so that she could “feed me up”. Apparently, after The Boy died, I’d completely...
- Read more about Christmas Every Day
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1021 reads
Her father was a thunderstorm
The years rained down on her like a child's spiteful playground punches. She was brutalised by the time in which she lived, a time, when those who...
- Read more about Her father was a thunderstorm
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1050 reads
A gift at Christmas
Years ago, when Christmas was still Christmas and I was just a wee boy stuck in my room in the attic because of the asthma, and everything else that...
- Read more about A gift at Christmas
- 9 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 20771 reads
Three moments
Twixt here and there
- Read more about Three moments
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 534 reads
Whiteout Rewrite (The Black Market)
9. The Black Market “This place is very dangerous,” said Nick to James, looking shiftily around the street corner they were on. They were waiting on...
- Read more about Whiteout Rewrite (The Black Market)
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1188 reads
Senior Moments at Christmas Party
I belong to our local Senior Citizens Association. I joined in order to play in the scrabble group a few years ago, but also volunteered to set up a...
- Read more about Senior Moments at Christmas Party
- 12 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4778 reads
Leggings - The Barrack Street Boys – equivalent to the Cockney Kings & Queens...

Leggings - The Barrack Street Boys – equivalent to the Cockney Kings & Queens... A local Norwich resident suggested to me that another faction is...
- Read more about Leggings - The Barrack Street Boys – equivalent to the Cockney Kings & Queens...
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1530 reads
Tears stream from Aleppo
Tears stream from Aleppo; blood sunken, shattered city; scarred and ruined, scattered lives while monolithic men, with stone hearts watch; unshaken...
- Read more about Tears stream from Aleppo
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 634 reads
Grimms3
Pizza Face is smaller than me, but with a big square head, so we’re really the same size. We’re standing in the smirry rain with duffle coat hoods up...
- Read more about Grimms3
- 8 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3131 reads
Belfast Boun (Poetry Monthly)
The bricks they may bleed and the rain it may weep And the damp Lagan fog lulls the city to sleep. It's to Hell with the future, we'll live in the past May the Lord in his mercy be kind to Belfast. Maurice James Craig
- Read more about Belfast Boun (Poetry Monthly)
- 12 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4004 reads
Grimms2
Dad was better fun than an alarm clock. I used to watch him before I was old enough to get locked up in school. The light in my room was on the death...
- Read more about Grimms2
- 13 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4738 reads
Winter child
Away from the leafed through house and far from the stale, bitumen thrum of traffic crush we curl back into the womb of the earth. Topping the brow...
- Read more about Winter child
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2264 reads
Cardamom Hills (extract)
I screamed in the night and there was no-one there to hear me. Upon returning to my native St Catherine's from such travels in Provence as can be...
- Read more about Cardamom Hills (extract)
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1135 reads
History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)
Janus recounts the publishing of his first history, about the ancient movement towards freedom and improved quality of life in the earlier history of Gallanol. He models many of his recommendations for the improvement of life in the grey work driven modern society of Marta and Gallanol on them.
- Read more about History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1942 reads
Have You Seen My Sister?
Have you seen my sister? My kin My skin and blister She lives inside a dream Between two scenes She is a drifter Her smile is just a wisp And her...
- Read more about Have You Seen My Sister?
- 7 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2833 reads
Our House.

Every word is true... Our house had four rooms and a kitchen. Sounds grand doesn’t it. Except... You walked in off the street into our “Front Room”...
- Read more about Our House.
- 17 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 5010 reads
The invisible hand

- Read more about The invisible hand
- 15 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4251 reads