Cherrypicked stories
Always Read the Label Chapter 2 The Morning after Pillock
how do you get through the next day after a night before like that?
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this day this roof
Life happens on rooftops twenty feet above the passersby where strangers forget to look, love is made. squeeze, shimmy--shoot up the ladder to make it
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The Pheasant
The Pheasant Was it the pheasant today? with its headlong neckstretched waddle across the road it seemed to know I would slow for its tiny little head those perfect fat hat feathers
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The Week In Fire
First, rolled fast between two hands twisted on itself and settled in the grate the Sports section, unread. There's pleasure in touching a match to the serrated edge, thinking
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Admiring Aysha
Nice little story with a surprise at the end.
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time
It was written on the back of my ticket stub, in blue ink, and I held it in my left hand, with the telephone in my right.
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Home
I was nineteen when I stumbled across your newly-built facade and I knew right then, as the violins soared, That this was no easy first step on the ladder
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1) New Claim: ZU7-JHQ
“Good Morning, Direct Royal Norwich Helpline, Danny speaking, how can I help you?” A typical call, on a typical day.
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The Dig
Two men looking for the body of a missing girl dig a hole to Nowhere (while also planning a doomed novel about an Italian soldier in love with a French nurse).
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Chocolate Mousse
I never cry, which is my way of punishing myself.
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Nibbing
I am very cosy now I will not disappear like a bird
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Player, Piano
Music and Life.
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Esa es vida, mi querida - That's Life, my dear...
little pic poem
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The Ship Club
I am taking inventory at my kitchen table Of the footprints and blisters I have made
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Cowboy's last stand (part 2 of 2)
Shoulder busted in a bar fight and questionned to an inch of his life by the cops, Mark Hammell finally makes it back to the comfort of his flat. His day's about to get worse though. Much worse.
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My boyfriend is converting me to free-range eggs
I am becoming an emancipator of Duracell chickens
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Damsel
I bump into my neighbour in the supermarket and we exchange pleasantries. Chit chat. This and that. I feel as if I am five years old and waiting for my mother to stop talking
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Home Improvement
With much fussing over plumb-lines and protective cladding The bricks are finally being placed in their course. Our breath held as the crystal panes disappear, their gleam
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Love Is A Teenage Invention.
My first love poem. Tread on it softly, they are my dreams.
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The Fairly Good Mother
Once, long ago, in the last days of magic, there lived a contented husband and wife.
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Renew
I have had this book out Four times now- 'Autobiographics' By Leigh Gilmore How we can theorise Our life stories. Gilmore eschews Familiar generic questions Apparently. I eschew the theory
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Before the Fall
about a childhood and a hanging
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Stroanfreggan
If this were my house I would check the thermometer outside the kitchen window and log the temperature in a hide-bound notebook every day I would worry about the melting of ice-caps
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Clap Your Hands
I was five years old when my brother was taken, and six-and-a-half when he came back.
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Not a lot happened that day
When nothing happens an awful lot can happen
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Baku
A short walk through the streets of Baku, down into the metro system and then back to the surface.
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Cowboy's last stand (Part 1 of 2)
A night out in Edinburgh turns nasty after the arrival of a stranger. Severed ears and a trip to the police station ensue.
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Scene Dream
Wrote this one a while ago and thought I'd try and resurrect it, bit of a surreal stream of consciousness deal, comments/sugggestions welcome!
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Greatness
An epic, stream of conscience poem.
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Robbed
The plan was simple. 1) Hire somebody to burgle my flat. 2) Report the burglary to the police. 3) Make claim with insurance company. 4) Pay burglar. 5) Get “stolen” property back.
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Affinity
Affinity Uncontrollable, catalytic, the last ingredient – light, too often diluted in forty shades of grey or in tsunami waves bleaching all.
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What if men burst in wearing balaclavas?
And the chicken is nearly roasted
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strike of balance(c1)
hmm.. fantasy i guess hope you like it.. The first few days of a magic/fighting school. Based on the range of games I've played on all jumbled up and ta da the product a fantasy story
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Art Class in Brookwood Cemetery
Leaving the Cemetery Pale road to sketch the headstones strewn like irregular verbs across this mirror of opposites. We have cautious connections; the boy Baron who died in his car-seat
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Hero's Journey Chapter One - Fifteen Years Later
Morning, Corday the 9th of Tanot, 674 AG (After Godswar) A small village on the western coast of the Kingdom of Arcadia The spring sunshine shone lightly on the small sheltered cove, filtering through the trees that spread out from the top of the cliffs bordering it on three sides and casting dappled shadows on the sandy beach.
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Knife (fragment)
This is about more than cutlery.
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Amy and Lucy (Part 1)
Two women. One theme. Adultery.
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Sublimation
The universe was a ball of wool and now you bring me soup.
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