Cherrypicked stories
Shaking
I want to take you away; to peel back the layers of sweat. Erase the sting of heroine; drain the poison. And if my blood was ink I’d never stop writing.
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Bill and the UFO29
office world
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Negative Equity
200 words.
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The Colour Blue
A decade on...
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I Did Not Dream in Far Fetched Themes ( I.P. )
off the cuff ;)
Free Dom!
He’s not what crime is all about
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On the night when you threw and I ducked
my keys on the kitchen table beside the dent from the frying pan on the night when you threw and I ducked
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A Chinese Wife: "Follow"
Another chapter in my novella: A Chinese Wife. (recently updated version)
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Conceptual poem, Humping
The exhibit was participatory And her teats big as cherries
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Reincarnation or heaven
“Who the Hell are you?” she shouted at the figure lurking beside her bed. “Get the fuck out of my bedroom. I’ll call the police.”
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Unexpected Intrusions of Beauty
the shrunken envelopes and newspaper are brown and crinkled like the underside of a mushroom, and the slender black sticks are curved with the symmetry of bones.
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Pythagorean's Theorem
'I learn about Asperger’s syndrome and help to nurse this boy’s confidence. For a window of time I think about nothing else.'
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big nothing haiku
artists battle wasps for their espresso outside in the thorn garden under bright bill-boards gray men with missing legs beg, unknown yankee dregs New Yorkers await
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My Personal Farmer (Bonus Pack)
I am the One True Pig.
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The Days of Maggie Spencer
Pouring bleach down the toilet, her mind goes back to how she’d got there...
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Those Days When Cliches Seem Appropriate
No one wants to approach writing ,geared in some grease monkey’s backyard, like a jacked up Yugo thinking it’s a Benz. When I was a child I salvaged a word from the side of the road.
statistics
We are running round the playing field, avoiding dog poo,a useful life skill you learn early when your parents don't have a car. All the other children and parents have given up.
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Spring Pictures
Shunga
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15 weeks to go
There was firstly a sense of organic systems being checked In an orderly fashion Breasts – check Vascular – check Hormone levels – check And a gathering in my belly That was you
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Strange Places From a Strange Person IP ( again)
Step right up, step right up Come see the sights You will be amazed Terror, romance, fantasy It’s all there folks That’s right, come right in Watch your step and keep together
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Midnight Sun
'Heaven's where you are'...I guess.
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It could be you
I gripped the arm rests on either side of my seat, holding on to the ends like a dentist’s patient anticipating the drill.
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Café Boris (Part 1)
It was three years ago that Dmitri lost his teaching job. The state school had simply run out of the money to pay him.
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The Sloe Path
A country walk.
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Learning To Fly
When I fly with you, we soar on fairy dust through the night sky.
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Afternoon at the Lagrande Jatte
Those faces and bodies at the park, colored dots juxtaposed with fancy, souls intermixed with pain and stillness, arrive, the beach is humming with mellifluous sounds, never heard before
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Tin Trailers, and Denim Hats
Something for Da tonight I think :)
Margaret4
fly slice of silence
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Cold turkey in a clinic with no name, 2000 (IP)
Valium withdrawals in a very strange clinic conforming to Rudolf Steiner's principles of Theosophical medicine. This was not at all what I was expecting....
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Cupid ain't Stupid
Lenny just slept with a woman, who can't make change or hold down an entry-level job. So why is he going back for more?
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Bandages
I need you to squish my face between your hands and push out a breath but you left
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The problem with cats 8/8
She threw a fireball big enough to have roasted a dragon and would certainly have killed her target if it had connected.
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Dreams
like the thread that a spider spins
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Aoife
Albeit the envisions of reality; Seemed too shallow for her belief... She chose not to worship a deity... Immersed in nothingness, much to her relief-
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Those Forgotten Epyllians
"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate". — J.B. Priestly Squatting in thick skinned caves, paged westward we became, nothing more
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Working Class Blues
I love those women who tap their fingers, waiting waiting how long must we be waiters or waitresses? I remember working as a waiter in a Japanese Restaurant in Winston-Salem, NC?
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Object of Desire
One kilo sells for a least thirteen hundred pounds.
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Bill and the UFO28
surreal of something
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Ex Chapter 5 - the mountains of Milton Keynes
Daniel’s father had not always wanted to murder his youngest son. There were times when, some might say, he had been an inherently good man.
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Stuck Outside Letterkenny
getting closer to what I want.
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A Quantum of Sonnet
Effort at a Sonnet...
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Get Into The Light: Chapter Fifteen- A Semblance of Normality or How Chevy Chase Saved My Brain
Slowly Lola's on the mend. And believe it or not, her music career is finally paying off!
Linger On, Summer Days
My exercise was to freewrite to accompany a set of images I had photographed and arranged in a storyline at http://www.blurb.com/mobile/show/026d6b630
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the angel anarchica
as black stars align she ascends from the cold war ether on riot wings into a decadent age prepared for her like a five-star table complete with swan napkin and free speech salad fork
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panic flashes
when the perilous moment comes (if not the next then the next or the next) I'm going to freeze up again like a coward or a lamb green schoolboy after all my adventures,
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The problem with cats 4/8
The witch was laughing extremely loudly and seemed to have grown a lot bigger. Jennifer Jane looked nervously at George, but he was just standing still with the most amazed look on his face.
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gimmee
“Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.” -attributed to Christopher McCandless, taken from the film, Into The Wild
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take refuge
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” -Sergei Rachmaninov
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You Cost Me My Summer
fuck the tories and fuck the tories again...
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Trying to change the world in an afternoon.
It had more than I ever could have; invisibility, freedom. The chance to just leap into the air on an updraft of wind and soar away into the blue abyss, never to be seen again.
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Escape
Say your father and mother come home one night, and they are particularly drunk; so they neglect to censor their opinions of each other. And you shield your little brothers ears
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Strange Places (IP)
Her mother seeks her out – but not in her bed, for she seldom sleeps there...
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These Dreams
This is a Pantoum, I hope it is more successful than the Sestina* was. * http://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/babbacombe-fair
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a flower lends its hands to gift charity
glow the sun, glow the valiant rose slippers continents of buds under the rain, lending her hands spread out, the stalk buds to stem she says, "I went out to find paradise
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Before We were Bistered ( at the request of mark_yelland-brown )
Fling off bistered slings wrapped upon God. Hidden in enshrined shine of dandelion is a symmetry of butter-yellow plumage worn upon joy's bird-face, labile to a breeze,
Your Violet Wind
You touched My mind The very first day We met: I felt your eyes; I felt your violet wind. I knew that you Were different From the rest: You wanted blood; You wanted love— My kiss.
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A Quiet Riot
A searching and fearless moral inventory of our great land's character defects, as told by a defecting spy who wishes to remain anonymous
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