Cherrypicked stories
The Tourist's Photograph
A few lines on wandering into the lives of others.
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- 827 reads
Same
Men&;#063; Women&;#063; Are we really THAT different&;#063;
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- 838 reads
Invisibles (extract)
A slightly unusual love&;#063; story
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- 882 reads
Werewolf
based on a German poem by Christian Morgenstern
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- 816 reads
Jojo's Blues
A man who has to get away from what he's let himself slide into
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- 878 reads
Y Poem - In Nerja With Ladies
Travel, Love, Friendship, Spiritual
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- 824 reads
Juvenile Tuna
interesting creatures...
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- 1193 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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- 1713 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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- 9805 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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- 1733 reads
Monkey's Christmas
Christmas time for a domestic, but angry, monkey
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- 919 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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- 957 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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- 778 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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- 1953 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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- 942 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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- 1703 reads
Pacific Beach (San Diego)
Footprints fade.
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- 2065 reads
Doing the maths and logistics...
Tongue in cheek view of Bush's fundraising from kids.
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- 1731 reads
On Losing My Keys and Regaining My Sanity
the meaning of life
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- 3754 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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- 948 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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- 969 reads
It Started On The Bus
I think someone saved me a seat for this ride.
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- 1804 reads
Life During Wartime
One person's war.
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- 794 reads
Michelangelo has finished the chapel wall
The greatest interior decorator of them all
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- 1089 reads
In Trepanning
I struggle to find the words-...
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- 1066 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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- 753 reads
Journalism Junkie
Addiction doesn't always mean substance abuse...
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- 1094 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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- 1183 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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- 955 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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- 744 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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- 709 reads
Angst Poem Wanted
Tongue in cheek poem about the adolescent work we hide in boxes under the bed
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- 1128 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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- 1155 reads
Vinyl Magic
Dedicated to all e-woccies and my mother.
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- 1092 reads