Cherrypicked stories
AN ORDINARY MAN - PART 6 - JOURNEY'S END
My Father, with me and my husband following in our Ford Focus estate, which had taken Dad on so many journeys, was blue-lighted to Lewisham Hospital...
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A Piece of Cake
So far so good.
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standing in the queue to order a word kebab at my local takeaway
What would you like? Voice of division Voice of derision Vice setting tone Garnish with that? Waiting for a letter to arrive Swirly bluebottle battle...
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Airplane (2)
“Tell me about SuperDuck,”
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Musing
I wish I wrote the way I thought; Persistently Obsessively With infuriating vexation And invasive thoughts that ponder on every stem I'd write to the...
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Sweet Lightning
Thunder thrums; in the middle distance a willow – overhangs the window, screeches on the pane...
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Hate Thy Neighbour – Racism In The 1970s
When I was nine years old my parents did something to me that I would never dream of doing to a child. I know this because I was talking to my wife...
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Castle Pillock 5
The Princess is taking her genes on holiday...
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How Far Would You Go to Keep Living?
A television tells six Brazilian teens to shake hands with each other. A simple request, but one with serious intentions.
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Summer Flights
They’ve made it again, Which means the world’s still working, the Creation’s Still waking refreshed, our summer’s Still all to come – Ted Hughes, “...
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Excursion
Maybe it's not about escaping But changing Maybe what's not good now Will be great tomorrow It's entirely down to you Maybe there's something far...
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The Wanderlust Lady and the Door to Door Salesman - 2
August 10, 2012 Stan I'm 20 years old - and live on my own, having left my mother and step-father years ago, and having been in and out of work...
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The Aeoroplane (1)
Kit Handsome was having a pretty shitty night. He had the beginnings of a summer cold and he couldn’t sleep for the constant need to shove his nose...
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Mandragora's Curse
In a forgotten corner, in the abandoned gardens of the decaying pile named Gallows House, there’s a place as dark as night.
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In the Garden Room
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Tradesman - revised
Hauling heavy timbers. Broad shoulders and strong arms. Scuffed knees and dusty shorts. Roughened hands that grasp and handle tools with lazy ease...
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The Wanderlust Lady and the Door to Door Salesman - 1
July 31, 2012 Where ever I go these days, I feel like people are staring at me. Watching me. It makes me uncomfortable. I'm a perfectly normal person...
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Pirate bite
A joint collaboration with my 4 year old nephew and my 6 year old neice. We wrote this together along with another one called "My purple cup".
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Flypast
A field of August wheat...
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Look Back In Ongar
I remember... Back when there were two Germanies, Two Berlins, two Towers, Two Ronnies, Two and a Half Men… I remember… Tea with Jenny In our...
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