Cherrypicked stories
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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- 1364 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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- 2594 reads
Cold Blooded
Who can you really trust&;#063;
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- 1634 reads
A judge of character
How wrong can one be.
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- 2588 reads
Henry Miller at Denny's
Too Long In California
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- 2297 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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- 1400 reads
You Can't Have It All.
2nd best - Better than nothing at all &;#063;
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- 1488 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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- 3706 reads
S(h)OCKS
How a simple clothing item can change your life.
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- 1382 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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- 1377 reads
Midnight Mystery
a ghost story...
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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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- 1499 reads
FUNERAL OF YOUTH
Unwanted Memories of Aga's grave
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- 5612 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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- 1318 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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- 1406 reads
My old friend Winter
Good bye summer
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- 1465 reads
Madam Vanerre's Shuffle
a story about a generation gap
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- 1578 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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- 1337 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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- 1543 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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- 1466 reads
Dog Food
The author would like to stress that no animals were harmed during the writing of this story
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- 1505 reads
Night Shift
Bitterness Of Working Through The Night
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- 2125 reads
The Morning After
Another day another date
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- 1567 reads
Understanding
When all those around you are losing their heads
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- 2211 reads
CHildhoOD CHaptER
A Sanctuary of Human River
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- 3235 reads
Pause!
The emptiness hammers another nail into my chest. My fingers dance of their own volition, weaving intricate patterns in the empty space between the...
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- 1682 reads
Empty Road
the red dust drifts through the sleeping air the scales of light coil around my thoughts and drag hollow names from the slender ground water cased...
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- 1893 reads
This Old Man
Epiphanies in a relationship
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Anybody there&;#063;
Ever talked to yourself&;#063;
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Inspiration Point)
Once upon a time, not so long ago, Goldilocks went for a walk in the woods, but no sooner had she got there than she realized she was wearing six inch heels.
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- 23473 reads
Las Vegas 3
“So what would happen if we didn’t give it back? If we just kept going?
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Las Vegas 2
It’s half past eight in the evening, but it’s still boiling hot. The temperature gauge says it’s 110, so the first thing we do is put the roof down.
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- 10865 reads
Las Vegas
We’ve finished laughing at the room. We’ve examined the funny fake ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that they’ve plastered everywhere.
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47˚ East 18˚ South 5
another part of this
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- 9550 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 4
in a village
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47˚ East 18˚ South 3
a continuation of something I started ages ago
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- 14 comments
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- 11572 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 2
I have no idea what's going to happen next
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- 6 comments
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- 6997 reads