Cherrypicked stories
If Love Were Banned...(I.P.)
Where would all the lovebirds go?
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Scrap 52
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 646 reads
Scrap 51
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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- 786 reads
Butcher Boy ( Part 19, Goodbye)
And then it was goodbye
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The Knowledge of a Koi Carp - Part 3
The Knowledge of a Koi Carp – Part 3
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So pale she was, so pale
Ségou, Mali, 1993
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Butcher Boy ( Part 18, Changes)
Times are a changin..
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Kiss chase, game over
Faze has backed some girls towards another part of the playground. A teacher tries to catch them all but everyone runs away – too slow, loser...
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My Bookcase, 4am
Marie de France's 'Bisclavret' howls at the moon like a wolf. 'The Assistant' mutters to itself in Yiddish. The window is full to the brim with stars, and poems rise up like unanswered prayers.
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The Poppy Man
I tell him the widow next door, died last June. ‘I know,’ he tells me..
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Scrap 50
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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Scrap 49
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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Things to Do
Change the sheets. Feed the Cat...
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Therapeutic
The archiving of my soul Proves a painful business
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Scrap 48
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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Eat
I like to watch people enjoy their food – the man who shines an apple on his jacket and then throws it in the air like a bowler. A girl on the train tearing cliff lines out of a tuna baguette.
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- 691 reads
Open Spaces
He made promises he could not keep, in the beginning he did not realize this; he went with the newness of everything.
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Pussy Willows
Slim and silky, silvery slippers, furry-ears peep, pushing open brown bud scales on Sallow branches, satin catkin flowers ripen. Those on male shrubs soon show yellow –
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The Tulips are Blown
Drawn out by the heat The tulips are no longer tulips.
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Sing the Sun Up
Sing The Sun Up
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That'll be Ben
The hall light’s still on... a noise wakes me.
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The Sure Thing ( Pin Numbers I.P)
Inspiration Point
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Scrap 44
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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Butcher Boy ( Part 16, Gun Fight)
Guns, Heavies, Shoot out?
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I like the way...
...feigning a vague sense of domesticity.
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Snowdrops
Snowdrops growing; new hope flowing; pretty, milk white petals dripping from the blessed breast of Spring.
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'Narnia'...
Our summer-house, at the end of the garden.
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At the Horticultural Show (Flash Fiction)
“And first prize for most interesting plant goes to...
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Ex chapter 17 - a birthday party from hell
“At open day, between Geography and History, he has 10 minute appointments with parents who want to murder their children. It’s more common than you might imagine.”
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Another Obstacle
And distance falls, becomes another obstacle. It stands in the way, guarding against The possibility of movement. A turning becomes a kind of stillness As motion turns in on itself.
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Butcher Boy ( Part 15 1976, Roy)
Roys not quite so good 1976
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Scrap 42
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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Love's Call
(i) Love appeared in the form of a golden leaf bold and new-budded ripe in spring's hazy splendour. He plucked it, drank its vibrant, jazzy sap, chewed the sweet vine
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Dragon's Breath
Together we are legends, and legends never die as long as they are remembered in story and song.
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The Blackbird’s startled wing…
“Words come down, outer space Mop my brow, dust these books Upon the mantelpiece Ignite the candle, long since Flickered perpetual light Before it’s time to say goodnight!
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A Page From the Calendar of Awe
A Page From the Calendar of Awe “History is like roadkill on a country lane. We injure it bluntly. We turn it inside out until we can no longer recognise it; can no
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The day I forgot my password...
it all got a bit messy...
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Scrap 40
Serial following the lives of two truckers in the early 1970's
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The Knowledge of a Koi Carp - Part 2
The Knowledge of a Koi Carp – Part 2
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Beyond Words
'A poem of the air' such is snow...
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Muddy Puddle Muddle Chapter Two - The Journey Begins
Oren was amazed as he looked upon the snail, and was equally enchanted by the colours in his trail.
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Butcher Boy ( Part 13, Old Ken and the Vouchers)
One door closes and another opportunity appears...
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The Shadow of a Crow
As he cradled her in his arms, a crow landed on top of the stone, pecking at it. It spread its wings and squawked, watching the two lovers.
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Truth Water: Chapter 3 (re-edited)
Chapter 3 of the re-edited version of my book, Truth Water.
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Redundancy
Feeling a little less A little less of what I was As if a limb is lost As if my shadow too has faded To think a piece of paper At the end of a month Had so much power
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The Prevention of Literature
Sonnet after an essay by George Orwell
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Snowfall
Out in the white clad White carpet woods It is not quiet Though I can barely hear a sound Just the whispered Crystal tumble of snowfall In the melt And a breathless thump
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Get Into The Light: Chapter Twenty One- Things Couldn't Go More Wrong Right Now
Finally the band are actually making it in Holland and Lola sees her life changing forever. But then something terrible happens which changes all that for good.
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The Muse and the Poet
(Edit 6/02/2012) The very essence of you lingers – a heady mix of sandalwood and pine.
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The JANEY ROBYN
a short story about a boat named after a beautiful woman, part poignant, part ghost story & the pull of the sea, love & friendship.
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Badly written story
“Hand over your monkey,” the robber said, brandishing a gnu. The rest of the gang had been lion in wait, and suddenly leopard out brandishing shoguns.
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Bay Cobequid
Through field glasses on Economy Mountain I focus upon winter's lingering stare--
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Goodbye Jennifer Jane
Jennifer Jane shut the lever arch file filled by her father with the loose leaves he’d always used.
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Christmas On A Rope
The play is set in a refuge shelter in Belfast City in the nineteen twenties .
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masturbating in church
my fondest memory of church had to have been the day that girl from my confirmation class whom i can’t for the life of me remember the name of now showed up in a skin tight neon pink dress
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my intoxvacation
somewhere off the coast of Thailand, a land of black volcanic rock and meter long black monitor lizards crawling about the perpetual hunt that's lasted millions of years...
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EGGS
Laura waited. The 0870 number was fine for BT users but with Virgin, it was costing 30p a minute.
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‘The day I forgot my pin …’ (IP)
or had I?
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Pearls To Diamonds
I've changed black pearls of cherished then To sparkling diamonds of today, It's all arranged, I've got a plan, At such small price as love to pay. I'll sell my dreams as plain free verse
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