Cherrypicked stories
"This Isn't England"
John took the mug down from the cupboard without thinking. White porcelain with a chipped rim, its printed red cross faded from years of washing up...
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Flowers in the desert, wartime
Having dipped into these wartime letters* from my father to his girlfriend/fiancée/my mother, put them in order (finding there were about 420, less...
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Night fishing
Just us—two cocklepickers
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 1 January.
Now for something completely different. This is the story of a gang of lads growing up in the north of England in the mid 1950s. Most of it is...
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Rembrien Chapter 9.
Chapter 9. Into the Dead World. Sophrayni left the inn before dawn. The road to the east was dry and crumbly, dust floating in the quiet air. No...
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Tramps Like Us
Tramps Like Us The song rages hard from the bedroom. Well, I guess it was selected on Hope. Alexa dealing jokers on an E Street Shuffle. All I want...
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Crazy Scenes at Club Hypnagogo
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. September 2026 (Part 2 of 2).
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Poem III: Genesis 21, Amended
we you I the one who watches and looks away Hagar and Ishmael cast out into the wilderness, with the rescue deleted. No voice is heard, no eyes are...
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All the President’s Haemorrhoids
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. September 2026 (Part 1 of 2).
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Frankenplot: Ghost Story – Uphill
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy – Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5. Shakespeare. Frankenplot: Ghost...
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The Kingdom without a Dragon Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. The Final Act. The story of the heroic battle with eye witness reports of the event and photographs of the burning carcass and the madly...
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Rembrien Chapter 8.
Chapter 8. The Eastern Gate. Shade took Sophrayni eastward. The fields were green, the trees full, and the air carried the scent of damp earth and...
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Frankenplot: The Black Stone.
Old Jock wheezed. He tried to stir his body and sit up in his hospice bed, but all he could do was lift his head off the pillows a smidgen to take a...
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The Less Miserables Find a Way (3)
Three weeks later. Quinn landed his first kickflip since the break. It wasn't pretty—his form was off, his balance shaky, his catch slightly late...
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The New Boy
A fictional memoir.
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Rembrien Chapter 7.
Chapter 7. The Dragon’s Heart. They rode out together at first light. Sophrayni led. Shade moving with quiet purpose. Captain Smike followed on a...
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The Kingdom without a Dragon Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. A Dragon for Sir Roger. The Butler left the palace and walked down into the small town which was the capital city of Minisculia. His...
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The Bungalow-19
Continued from Chapter 18: The Bungalow-18 | ABCtales Hawke typed ‘Karakoram Highway’ and ‘cycling’ into Google. Quite a few entries popped up;...
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Frankenplot - The Volunteers
The volunteers, Charity shop on a Thursday Yellowed fingers in the pages Search for hidden photos, love notes, Pound notes and Penny Blacks Pointed...
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