Cherrypicked stories
I Love Everything About You
This is the Prologue from my collection of short stories, "Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love", which is available from Amazon and other bookshops. For more info please visit www.richardbardsley.net
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The Whole Truth
...or some of it.
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what isn't happening
I like it when an unrequited love visits me in my dreams I get to hold her and that even get naked with her which is nice but, we never you know actually do it do the do do the sex
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What It Is
First scene of a stage play. An average day in a Council Drop In Centre...
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The Cuckoo’s Nest
Am I here because of the madness within, or was I infected by this place?
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The Ploughman's Apprentice
He dropped the skull and jumped backwards, shuddering at the sight of its grinning jaws and earth-filled eye sockets…
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Catching the train
With Christmas and New Year celebrations out of the way she was determined that she had to take this journey.
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To Dorothy
Who are these people from my childhood?
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Dark Days Ahead
Is that the thunder that I heard?
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Satya
Inspiration Point "When I was younger, it was all the rage to be terribly silly and I think it's happening again now..."
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BRIDGE OVER THE PANNY
His name was Stefan Mix and people said that he had a terrific imagination.
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How education saved me
Back in the days, Of crayons and leisure Whenever it rained I got drenched with pleasure. Pebbles and shells Were still things to treasure. How stupid I wonder, I must have been back then
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Down The Barrel
The end of our era.
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Finding Zen in Bum Woods
Where's my Zen, hmmm? Where's my fucking Zen? She was speaking out loud now. And why the fuck not? she thought. What is there to stop me?
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Tony Dunne Has Had The Same Song In His Head Since Tuesday
Tony Dunne will not suggest a slideshow, would stuff the gaps with stories, has found enigmas...Tony Dunne has lots to say.
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Stations
Should I have forgotten the way your eyes looked away to stare along the route that would take you from me? Eyes which shone like polished metal in a face framed by the rust
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One Question
A story about trying to conduct a coherent conversation with the person who broke your heart, whilst using the underground transport system in London.
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The Game of Blox
...trial by ordeal in a time-loop...a bit of a nightmare really...maybe it should be called Purgatory...
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Twisted
The poet's sharp eyes are blunted
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On Poetry Readings
There is a bra in this poem, there's a teaser for you!
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A New Woman
Inspiration point 10/01/08.
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The Ones That Got Away
how dare they?
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I Walk Around in Circles
There's something about sitting in the quiet, white room, staring at the locked door, aware of all the pills piled up on the rack behind me.
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The Chronicles of Bob
I am Bob. I am Bob. My name is Bob. Although yesterday it was Harvey, and tomorrow it will be Randall, for now my name is Bob.
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The Desert
I buried that man in the desert. Took my shovel and I gave him a shallow grave. By the time any rains have come he’ll be deep under ground, buried by the sand storms.
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They'll Take One Well Behaved Dog
Holiday tail.
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Violence
Think of the repurcusions before turning against one another
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Chapter Twelve-The Dancing Whore at the Anchor Inn
The whore who had been undressing clambered up barefoot on the sturdiest table, around which many swarmed like bees around some very dusty flower.
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Chapter Eleven: Storm Brewing (EDITED)
“A girl dressed as a boy?” Luigia moved closer, curious, “That’s a bit conspiratorial, isn’t it?”
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Mrs Munro's lament for the loss of Marilyn
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Figures
I wish this piece had come across with more empathy for them, I felt sorry for them both ... but it didn't, and maybe that's the way it's meant to be.
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A Ghost Story
"...on those few occasions I did come back here, I stayed away from all the old places. Too many ghosts I didn't want to face again, I suppose."
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Ode To The Spineless Bastard Who Cloned My Debit Card
Yesterday, I found out that large sums of money had been stolen from my account. I am now officially a member of the ever-growing club of identity fraud victims. Hooray!
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me myself & .i.
.i. what men think with
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My Favourite Song
Albert of Norway and Simba the lion Elvis, and David, the conqueror of Zion, Kong, and that one out of Lord of the Rings These are a few of my favourite kings
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Weather report
I’m in the skate park Cloud obscurity nine out of ten I dream about huge wasps leaving toffee I eat one of the stings Like a brazil nut
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Fag-it Girls
Saw these two today when I went for a butty this morning.
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Duchamps's Heir
...the metamorphosis of a cheat...
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