Cherrypicked stories
The Picture Ranch 40
They say life begins at forty, will some kind of plot development begin here? Image source tumbler https://www.tumblr.com/search/rko%20logo
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Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down (part 6)
His father glanced across at him and smiled. Jack felt that in all the world and all of time he was exactly where he should be and he wanted the...
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Grimms88
Jaz squats on his haunches at the door to the smelly cupboard in the lobby. Under the light of a thirty-watt bulb he inspects the Starr pistol in his...
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The Second World War: PART 2 - Otto Krause - Berlin (1944)
On the afternoon of March twenty-sixth, the Hotel Adlon at number seventy-seven on the Unter den Linden, with its somewhat beige exterior and flat copper roof, became the scene of an abhorrent crime.
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Burning Bright
Looking out my living room window I see a tiger. I’m sitting with my feet up, reading a magazine, drinking the world’s most divine white hot...
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Forest Hill Station
Forest Hill Station Junkies line up by the infant day; Insomniac, achnied. Conductors speak in tongues Banal, hackneyed. A graffito declares peace On...
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The Mouse Prince
Once there was a prince named Roxano who was being forced, by his parents, into marriage with a foreign princess but he was already in love with a...
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The Treetops
The treetops never wait for you And fields are incorrigible when You finally notice them That’s when they call you ‘Featherbrain’ After when the...
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Penis Head Wilson
Penis Head Wilson was a normal kid. He knew he was. He liked playing outdoor games such as football with his pals, hide-and-seek and kick the can,...
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When Daddy Comes Home
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Relative Poverty | Reflecting on Childhood Experiences
I am, I accept, very privileged. I live in a well furnished and accessorised home that I can afford to keep warm in winter. I earn more than enough...
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A Trip of Trepidation
Sailing on a stormy salty sea Searching for salvation Travelling on a train of thoughts Departing an empty station Aboard a bus on a beaten path...
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The Girl With No Name
Wish you’d been with me at the open window, and that you hadn’t gone astray. We’d have smoked rocks of crack by the open window, waiting for the moon...
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The Rule of Three
"It seems that every day, is just another rotten mess, people say it's gonna end soon, but when it will I can only guess" More Trouble Every Day Frank Zappa 1967. Image is free stock image from http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15715
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2002-05 My memories of working at a hostel for homeless men
It wasn't my first time working with people who had become homeless. It was 22 years after. I was now 43, working in Exeter not Belfast. The system...
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Grimms87
Rab finishes his pint and follows Jaz out of the pub. He feels woozy, as if he could lie down for a lunch-time nap. A few minutes’ walk through...
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The Prince And The Poisoned Jewel
Once, a Prince named Edvar, set out to find a fabulous, legendary jewel for his princess Sarahlina called the Star of the Sea. And finally, after a...
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Dad was "Old School"
Dad was “Old School.” You know what I mean by that? Well, he was a man of his time. Born in the thirties, just a kid during the war, a teenager in...
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Paper Doll
Paper Doll She was two dimensional at first Laid flat Then folded, eyes drawn with black Lips pale pink Fragile legs took shape then speed She ran...
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A strange dream
A man once had a dream that he phoned up a dream analyst on the radio. "And whats your dream about?", asked the analyst. "Uh, I have this strange...
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