Cherrypicked stories
Sweet smell of Ker-ching !
Why nobody bought anything the Saturday before Christmas...
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- 1391 reads
Fantasia after Carmina Burana
Inspired by hearing Orff's music at the Albert Hall
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- 2229 reads
Quandary
These twentysix letters and some symbols are similar as the air about us, and as diffeerently formed. I fashion mine into questions and in your...
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- 1284 reads
IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS
Never trust a pretty face
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- 1546 reads
Girl on the Porch
One Shade of First Romance
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- 1872 reads
Dare!
A shop without customers provides the perfect location for a dangerous game
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- 1449 reads
THE THREE WISHES
AN OLD FAIRY TALE UP-DATED
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- 1367 reads
That's Easy for You To Say
Glimpse into the lighter side of language
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- 2429 reads
End of the Matter
From the mind of a child...
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- 1673 reads
Killing Colour
Sometimes you learn a lot about yourself
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- 1908 reads
Dry martini, be the death of me
Picking the wrong day to go into work hungover
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- 1311 reads
Pillow
The mushroom-pillow releases invisible flesh-scent spores. it's perfumed softness I embrace and inhale your sweet, sweet breath. Your smell: and...
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- 1276 reads
Night Lights
So Vince, myself and little Sam set up the moth trap long after the ripe peach sun had sunk and the other naturalists had headed for the bar.go could be.
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- 2500 reads
Cold Blooded
Who can you really trust&;#063;
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- 1504 reads
A judge of character
How wrong can one be.
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- 2440 reads
Henry Miller at Denny's
Too Long In California
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- 2176 reads
Rockets
"The planes came at nine," he said. "At two in the morning I buried my son. Then we left." "They warned us what was going to happen but we had no...
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- 1321 reads
You Can't Have It All.
2nd best - Better than nothing at all &;#063;
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- 1398 reads
Metaphors and Similes
Johnny's vision through narcotic headlamp eyes see; a dole queue like a urine stream with drained bodies like wrung swimsuits, therapist's comfort...
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- 3560 reads
S(h)OCKS
How a simple clothing item can change your life.
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- 1279 reads
Nowhere Near
Night's door opens you. I watch. Disembodied by distance a want haunts me: how you touch me and never touch me. In the past, this was enough. Now it...
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- 1306 reads
Midnight Mystery
a ghost story...
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- 1919 reads
Poet At 12 O'Clock
You say you're "always falling over with little glimpses of what it might be like to stand up." I think it's more to do with your being on the brink...
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- 1423 reads
FUNERAL OF YOUTH
Unwanted Memories of Aga's grave
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- 5267 reads
Holding on by a hand
Actually, who do I know but the person weeding deep in the woods pawing at melancholy dirt old dry dirt dirt in search of a pagan wiccan explosion of...
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- 1229 reads
Alternative Lifestyles
pallid, meek used to myself in supposition my feet are bare and make the greatest sense hobnobbing with tundra; the little flows in my wintered shelf...
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- 1310 reads
My old friend Winter
Good bye summer
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- 1368 reads
Madam Vanerre's Shuffle
a story about a generation gap
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- 1476 reads
God Is Like Paul Daniels
God Is Like Paul Daniels (Now there's a horrible thought) By Mark Cantrell Get out of my light, God, You're spoiling my view. Go sit in the corner,...
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- 1258 reads
Xerx's Bombshell
Like correcting a spelling error in Microsoft Word with a lightning fast click or removing money from one's own debit account, lies are really fast...
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- 1424 reads
Wee Sammy
Wee Sammy Preparation for work was religiously thorough. It involved the consumption of one bottle of Buckie, two cans of Breaker Malt Liquor and a...
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- 1379 reads
Dog Food
The author would like to stress that no animals were harmed during the writing of this story
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- 1401 reads
Night Shift
Bitterness Of Working Through The Night
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- 1953 reads
The Morning After
Another day another date
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- 1469 reads
Understanding
When all those around you are losing their heads
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- 2102 reads
CHildhoOD CHaptER
A Sanctuary of Human River
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- 3051 reads