Cherrypicked stories
Special Church Parade
An Interlude in Wartime
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- 898 reads
Human Cage
Compelled, pressured, push and prodded, Placed on a pedestal of ice, Worshiped like a winter god, An April fool about to die, I feel the world is...
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- 971 reads
Sunflowers
Sunflowers, she said to me I put them under my bed For safe keeping Her syllables Turning me in my sleep Safe sleeping. Later on in life i use The...
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- 662 reads
The Island
The Island. Wrapped in the golden beams of the warming sun Lee sat on the deserted beach. She thought over her time on this island, and all it had...
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- 684 reads
Room for you
For the people on ABC tales....there are a lot of you to name...but I know who you are....
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- 970 reads
Learning Not To Touch Bubbles
When I was little picking up my crayons I'd first have a picture behind my eyes, try to take it out, make it real on paper, always get frustrated...
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- 848 reads
It
A disease where people are literally "stuck up their own arses"!
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- 1043 reads
Women &; Madness: Part 1
Victorian: From red rooms to blue peaks.
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- 971 reads
Madness &; Women:Part 2
Psychiatric modernism: Women in the drawing room.
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- 809 reads
Business is Business
Murders are like busses. You wait ages to be asked to do one then two come along together
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- 847 reads
Realpolitik At The Refuge
A strong-minded woman is hard to beat.
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- 713 reads
Immortality
Immortality Part I Urban Myths " Have you heard the urban myth about the statue of fate?" Tom asked. "Yeah, the ghostly statue who turns a page in...
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- 937 reads
INTERMISSION
INTERMISSION Frank Donatelli had seen the opera enough times to know that when Baron Scarpa swears to Tosca, "For you I will forsake salvation!" the...
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- 881 reads
A Snapshots
Dishonesty is Sometimes the Best Policy
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- 877 reads
A strange kind of illness
Matthew sat in his locked office and prepared to do it again. No one knew. Not even his wife. It was a strange kind of illness, so invisible, but so consuming. He was surprised that it had happened to him. http://www.cooperking.co.uk
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- 1088 reads
Mother
The old ways are not always the best
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- 850 reads
Sun
Sunlight masks Silt thick Silk rich Slithers, drips Slips Seived through Leaf lips To scatter Flicker Worm Into my skin
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- 975 reads
Tv Listings
TV Listing from a few years ago
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- 838 reads
The Awakening
The Awakening I awoke in a daze not sure if I was really here. I had been ill in the night. And my sleep had been disturbed with restlessness and...
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- 1038 reads
Chocolate, Strawberries, &; Champagne
A taste so silky smooth Sweet flavor, a natural Aphrodisiac Warm colors of Brown, Cream and a deep rich Black The defenses are now low, and ready to...
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- 816 reads
Tuppeny Blues
Dishonesty among thieves
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- 1072 reads
Along the road
along the rainy highway you let me slip my hand under things of cotton along the two-lanes of southern georgia we sat locked eye to eager eye along...
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- 1163 reads
Strange lights vol 1
Don't look out the window for too long.
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- 681 reads
A Fool's Vanity
If the cap fits....
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- 720 reads
Total Quality Reproduction
Have you ever wondered what "Stairway to Heaven" would sound like with Elvis Presley singing&;#063;
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- 852 reads
Van Gough- faction
It could have been that way.
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- 714 reads
Chamillova's Tatranka
Marta Chamillova, also more cheekily nicknamed 'Stara' (old wise woman): Slovak National Treasure And we lived by her fierce folkloric dictum: “Fitting in is death. Remember that. You want to stand apart from your peers. Always."
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- 6671 reads
Two am
i look at the clock two am two ? doesn't look right should be spelled differently am wide awake why in a chat room talking to myths am close to myths...
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- 1444 reads
Enemy Inside
Rustling bags of food placed beside the door Fumbling fingers in handbag to fish out the key Key pushed in deeply and turned once more Pulled down...
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- 726 reads
Irrelevant Thief
is there something missing&;#063;
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- 744 reads
I want to write a poem
Getting my point across with no poetic ability.
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- 681 reads
RedGlorious.
A poem about self harm, femininity,love, betrayal, and beautey.
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- 762 reads
Commuter Train
monday morning on a commuter train
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- 1003 reads
The Pattern
Kirsty stared at the tattoo on the naked old woman's thigh. It was faded and distorted, clearly intended for a younger leg, but it was beautiful. She...
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- 1075 reads
Muskie's Big Break
The same characters as "Angel and the Elk", a few years later...
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- 1108 reads