Cherrypicked stories
We're Not Fucked Enough Yet
I imagined a pool of crude oil in the bathtub I imagined orphan blood on all my clothes I saw forests fall every time I wrote a love note
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- 3425 reads
Missing Years ( Part 7)
All is revealed.....
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- 12 comments
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- 4638 reads
The Spinster, Late of this Parish
(Edit 23/2/2012) Light green crocodile skin – her handbag, from an age of Greta Garbo
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- 13 comments
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- 2940 reads
Scrap 68
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 668 reads
The Day I Scaled the North Face of the Eiger
I remember the elation, still...
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- 2218 reads
Missing Years ( Part 6)
MI6, the rain, whats going on here?
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The peak
The ground began to shake every few seconds. The girl looked up just in time to see two red eyes staring at her from the darkness of the cave. A strange sound, a black shadow, and then ... cold.
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- 319 reads
The War Problem
It was 6.30 a.m. when I heard a hammering at my door. I quickly dressed and shouted for Alun to come in. He was clearly agitated. “We’re at war Jed,” he said.
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7.45am to Central.
"...tickets please..."
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- 16 comments
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- 4864 reads
I Was (Without)
I left my body when the new regime took over/Without hope of reform nor subversion
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- 1225 reads
Living Light- promises (2)
I can hear voices, a cold brush of air like breath ebbing along the bed sheets. I want to reach out, to stroke his cheek or hold my children’s tired bodies until they decide to stir.
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- 1573 reads
Lausanne
travels with my mates
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- 2051 reads
Bird Song
Gods alarm call....
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Missing Years ( Part 5)
What does the shadow mean, is he going home?
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- 3513 reads
Cultivate or Strangulate (IP)
(of gardens, real and allegorical)
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- 8 comments
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- 3011 reads
Scrap 66
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1 comment
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- 728 reads
Scrap 65
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 656 reads
The Leaving of Harar
The outlaw death of Arthur Rimbaud
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- 1688 reads
Tomorrows
End of the affair!
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- 3477 reads
The Art of Letting Go
How could I have known?
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- 18 comments
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- 3950 reads
Lefty Loosy. Righty Tighty
It was a tap that tipped him over the edge.
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- 2434 reads
Gone Fishing
“I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be a fish...nothing else to do except watch us, watching them."
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- 2227 reads
Scrap 64
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 596 reads
Scrap 63
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 654 reads
The Young Man and Summer
Once, the Summer fell in love with a young man and, so that she could be with him, she made herself into a woman but in her human form the man wanted nothing to do with her.
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- 1467 reads
Finch Continue to Dare
Lupins the only competition for a riot of colour
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Missing Years ( Part 3)
Gradualy remembering.
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- 12 comments
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- 3831 reads
Scrap 61
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1 comment
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- 660 reads
The Folly and The Ivy (I.P.)
His torso stiffens as a sickle moon rises...
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Sherif - January 29, 2011
This is my turf, my school bus routes, my cruising with friends, smoking hash and eating greasy shawerma. My family lunches at the Car Club, my tailor fitting me for my first suit. This is my home.
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Christopher (1953 – 1983)
Some say it's the ultimate expression of anger. Some say it's a way that the pain is excised. Brutally perhaps, I often wonder now if it's just an expression of jealousy, desperation in envy.
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Ahmed - January 28th, 2011
I hate myself, fully and completely. And this fury breaks me into a cold sweat. I stand up and look at the square before me. I’m supposed to be brave. Brave men don’t run.
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Mona - January 28th, 2011
‘He’s taken down his two hunting rifles and his handgun and has organized a little neighbourhood militia.Who’d have thought? And someone conveniently found a few butchers knives.’
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- 711 reads
Scrap 60
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1036 reads
Scrap 59
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1 comment
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- 665 reads
Butcher Boy ( Part 23, Reunion)
I can't believe it, seeing Roy again?
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Names and their Importance in Literature!
Will Elsie Scraggit end up disgraced and abandoned in Brighton?
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Terms of Endearment
You lived in me, and I in you.
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Ex - chapter 19 - bank robbers and buried noses part 2
So shoot me you execrable little pissant, shoot me in my guts where it is going to hurt the most and do it now before I rip you apart with my fucking teeth.”
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Ex-chapter 18 - Bank robbers and buried noses part 1
I decided, on balance , given that my cheekbone had been shattered and the word “Teflon” had been burnt in reverse onto my forehead, that I had better pop in to A and E.”
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- 748 reads
Geometry
Your naked body, in a way, speaks enough poetry to fill the entire bedspread, and then you tell me you don’t believe me, you say I have a dependence on romance,
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- 570 reads
Reel Life
The pincer movements of crabs duelling; a coral reef seahorse carousel; Life’s a ballroom and a boxing ring. We all turn in an eternal wheel. Jewelled night’s a manichean duel
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- 1255 reads
Scrap 58
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 597 reads
Scrap 57
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 2 comments
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Butcher Boy ( Part 22, Moving On)
Time to move on....
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Death of the Ancients
Arrix could make out tiny black threads stitched into the eyelids, forcing them shut.
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The Dead Land: Chapter 10
While her confidence and fury rapidly dampened, it didn’t take Robbie long to realise that she needed a plan.
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The Day That Love Was Banned
All watched over by machines of less-than-loving grace
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The Girl Next Door
She sat, skinning a lemon; spying, as I was, through a hole in the fence.
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Scrap 56
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1 comment
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- 642 reads
Scrap 55
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1 comment
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- 633 reads
Butcher Boy ( Part 21, Supergrass.)
Headline news, it all falls into place...
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The ski-suit
Standing in his living room in a full-length ski-suit, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was a man who was trying on a recent purchase in preparation for a holiday, but, on closer inspection,
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Little One
almost two and interested in everything around you
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I have a dream
Last night I had dreams that woke me,
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Butcher Boy ( Part 20, The Visit)
A visit from Gaz is never good!
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- 3553 reads
Pure Love.
It is recorded that the oldest known love poem is written on a tablet of clay. Circa 8th century BC. "...Goodly is your beauty,
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- 7029 reads
Scrap 54
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1 comment
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- 688 reads
Scrap 53
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 1 comment
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- 674 reads
Southbound
A wanderer yearns for home, the son he's never met, and long distance absolution.
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- 945 reads