Cherrypicked stories
Jojo's Blues
A man who has to get away from what he's let himself slide into
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- 818 reads
Y Poem - In Nerja With Ladies
Travel, Love, Friendship, Spiritual
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- 777 reads
Juvenile Tuna
interesting creatures...
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- 1126 reads
SOMETIMES I GO LOOKING
Quell my dreams someone I'm losing balance here Dancing rope to bedlam South of madness Rambling under sodium stars A mustard jazz parade French...
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- 1601 reads
A TOWN CALLED BASILDON
There are no short cuts. I'll be quick. Very quick indeed. Basildon was conceived and built in the late forties along with other such devastatingly...
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- 9651 reads
Which story is more successful&;#063;
A comparative between Edgar Allen Poes 'The Black Cat' and 'Lucy Blue' by David Almond
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- 1649 reads
Monkey's Christmas
Christmas time for a domestic, but angry, monkey
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- 805 reads
Cucharacha Hyperanthropos
Glassy-eyed dawn weeps majestically as it subtly Courts the mountainside Luminary embrace Craggy rock faces jut out to greet her Echoing the...
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- 855 reads
Whitman's Staff
The trials and tribulations of this lifetime you speak of subtly Nature's harsh cycle of life can you bear witness to... Oh casualty of the galing...
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- 681 reads
Hotel Metropole
The question is: Where will they meet this week? At the Hotel Metropole of course. Its central location and high-ceilinged rooms, despite having...
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- 1813 reads
Discretion
I look at you- unsubtly, lips suggestively pursed. Pouted over a glass, and I sip. A glass of juice that tastes of you. I can still feel
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- 871 reads
And the next please
on certain days i tire of speaking to people i meet and want to withdraw into another place but something stops me from making that trip and i will...
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- 1598 reads
Pacific Beach (San Diego)
Footprints fade.
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- 2015 reads
Doing the maths and logistics...
Tongue in cheek view of Bush's fundraising from kids.
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- 1607 reads
On Losing My Keys and Regaining My Sanity
the meaning of life
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- 3677 reads
E is for emotion
Things cannot be so bad as I think - I shall not sink if I can write: words are the skin we hold emotion in.
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- 910 reads
Down
I would give like water to your touch, feel I know every curve of you inside out, fit in your life like a jigsaw piece without a crack between sea...
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- 924 reads
It Started On The Bus
I think someone saved me a seat for this ride.
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- 1730 reads
Life During Wartime
One person's war.
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- 711 reads
Michelangelo has finished the chapel wall
The greatest interior decorator of them all
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- 1023 reads
In Trepanning
I struggle to find the words-...
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- 988 reads
This scar
This scar on my right arm Is not from a fearsome battle, Nor from a sporting accident, Not even from racing on a circuit Or from a marshal bout in a...
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- 706 reads
Journalism Junkie
Addiction doesn't always mean substance abuse...
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- 1028 reads
C) Ice Cream
Ice Cream You would have to see the photograph, but we are both eating choc ices, my sister and I; there she is, intent on the wrapper, wrapped...
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- 1127 reads
Does your TV addiction really harm others&;#063;
Does your TV addiction really harm others? "Please turn it off" He said with a cough Just before you realised that he was half way through hanging...
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- 897 reads
SmashinFruit
Smashing Fruit Vine barren after the hard winter, licked warmly by spring rain, bud burst promising fecund joy. Daily fragile delicately- webbed...
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- 674 reads
The Wheel
The Wheel The fire's dull light flickers. A gentle humming wavers then begins anew. There is a spinning wheel softly creaking. Fingers, brown and...
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- 632 reads
Angst Poem Wanted
Tongue in cheek poem about the adolescent work we hide in boxes under the bed
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- 1033 reads
A Turkey for Christmas
Father Christmas was tired. He had been up all night delivering presents to children all over the world. He put his reindeer into the stables for a...
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- 1057 reads
Vinyl Magic
Dedicated to all e-woccies and my mother.
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- 1010 reads
Good Things Happen to Bad People
The three main characters in this story are Frank, Harry and Sam. Those aren't their real names but they are real people. For that and other reasons...
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- 840 reads
And The Shaman Sings On
Once you enter the Shaman World you may never get out..
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- 906 reads
X - The Big Leap
It was after his third successive failed suicide attempt that Joseph truly began to believe he was immortal. His first two bungled attempts had led...
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- 1517 reads
Crocodile tears
Private grief, public interest
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- 2156 reads