Cherrypicked stories
Your hand in mine
Your hand in mine I can smell your breath from here feel its heat on my ear hair at angles against the blue wallpaper eyes open just enough to savor your smile your hand in mine
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The 30th of Julia
The 30th of Julia The 30th of Julia is not a sad dissected piece of forensic detritus bagged, tagged, and labelled a toe perhaps or an ear a plane crash remnant or evidence of a bad bad man
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How To Lose Money And Brain Cells - A Petty Drug Dealers Guide PT 6
Hell’s Kitchen
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Ode to joy
Stuck in Earl’s Court in a car, in traffic. Nothing moving but crankshafts and fan belts in the blistering heat. I see a man on a doorstep, stained from the day’s toil.
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White
A short story written about addiction, that I did for my degree. Opinions welcome. :)
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Let's Start Again
Not a comp entry. A 200 word story...of sorts.
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The borders of sleep (IP)
This story, which I submitted sometime ago (under the title 'The Chasm At The Edge Of My Dreams') but deleted, seems to fit the IP and so I'm resubmitting it under a new title.
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"Let's Start Again"
A fine-tune of an oldie.
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The Palace
I wrote this on the 4th of June at 5:30am
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Let's start again
competition entry
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- 574 reads
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Long ago three goats grazed in pastures green and hilly. Their mother kept it simple and named the three goats Billy. Having a name that’s just the same as your brother’s bad enough,
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When it hits
Going into the depressive state.
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Let's start again
Competiton entry
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Say It Isn't So
...or at the very best, help me to forget...
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Borders of Sleep: Nightmare I.P.
I have come to the borders of sleep And slip in a land that exists Only in my mind I walk in shadow swept valleys Long forgotten memories Hiding in the crevices Come creeping out
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- 1935 reads
bicycles
you've seen them, right?
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Let's Start Again
Competition Entry
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- 1833 reads
Let's Start Again
Competition entry
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Let's Start Again
Competition Entry
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- 1164 reads
Looking in
On the windowsill looking in, one claw clutching the wooden rim, on leg tucked in beneath a wing. Used condom laying on the edge of the bin, its contents starting to smell,
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Let’s Start Again
Competition Entry
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The Alchemist's Apprentice
Competition Entry
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SOME HAIKU
We gather brambles while the clouds above grow black. Soon sweet rain will flow. Curly clouds part and let the bright June sun shine through to warm my bald spot. My pumpkin lantern
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The Missing Madonna, Chapter 31 "Do you know the answers?"
The last chapter - ending on a note that looks forward to the third book of the trilogy - 'The Madonna and the Political Prisoner'. But that's only half written...
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Let's Start Again
Competition Entry 2315 words
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Let's Start Again
Competition Entry
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The Missing Madonna, Chapter 30 "Joshua grows up"
It's seven years later, and Mari has seven children now. And the oldest is Joshua, he's twelve and on his way to Jerusalem to participate in his first Passover celebration there.
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On Independence Day
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That's Enough
Now ask yourself this, what world do we live in ‘Cause one minute you’re the hero the next a villain We got drive-bys and stabbings as a way of living
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If you only knew
how it was
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A Scriptual Geologist And His Daughter Admire The Malvern Hills
Today young earth is bathed in His best gold the warm hillocks shaped by Creation and Flood - perfect arcs and angel-trees moulded by His own hand. The earth is a reflection
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charlie d.
ode to the tomfoolery of charlie d.--- i praise ye d., sweet falstaff of this postmodern age who causes us to cachinnate, stumbling backward in ha-ha’s,
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The True Poet
My grandfather was The true poet The way he Tilled the land With his hands Beneath the sun He seemed to Touch the sky With his thoughts
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If you meet me, have some sympathy 17
A story in 200-word chapters. If you're going to wander around cyberspace, stay away from the big sites. They mean business.
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No Place Like Home
200 words.
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Loch Lomond 3
John reaches the safety of home
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Get Into The Light: Chapter Ten- Be Yourself and Take Some Advice from Bono
Lola heads out on her first video shoot but finds it hard to be natural in front of the camera. How does Bono manage- doesn't he ever feel a bit silly?
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Let's Start Again
Competition entry
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- 2187 reads
Homespun
Like a quilt of many colours...
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the writereader
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.” -Socrates
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Half-Life, Ch. 1
Harper Bentley's a normal teenage girl... or is she? Are the nightmares that plague her every night just that, or are they something more? This is the first chapter to my new story, Half-Life.
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Soap Scum and Brine (Part 2)
Words can’t describe his horror at the thought of dying by choking to death on a lungful of soapy bubbles, and it was this fear that dragged him back to his feet and forced him to think.
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Conundrum
Social work have given us a working agreement, to be signed by Monday. Part of this is for me to see their "independent psychologist".
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How To Lose Money And Brain Cells - A Petty Drug Dealers Guide PT 4
Out With The Old And In With The New
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'At the Going Down of the Sun '(I.P.)
“As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, as the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end,they remain"
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Let's Start Again
It happened almost overnight. One day, I was a forty three year old housewife living in Greater Manchester; and next I was the head of the family.
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Wobbly Tooth
He's lost his first two baby teeth in care. But he wouldn't put them under his pillow there, he wants OUR tooth fairy to come, to his own bed.
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How To Lose Money And Brain Cells - A Petty Drug Dealers Guide PT 3
Work And Babies – Who Needs Them?
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An Affair.
It was cold outside, But in the cusp of your hand there is a flame, Withering and dying- But it is still alive. What is it that attracts two people together?
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Time Zones
Long distance [internet] love....
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The oak tree falls 10/10
Malcolm stood up and turned round in surprise, “I’m not anyone’s uncle...” then his jaw dropped in amazement, “why it’s you, you little!...
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Sun Soaked Eyes
Along the brazen border That separates Tijuana and San Diego, Indigenous children Sell packets of gum On the side Of the freeway For nickels and dimes;
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The Past and the Present
Love was rather inconvenient. Each day, it was getting harder to come into the house. To step in just like before and act as if things were the same.
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How To Lose Money And Brain Cells - A Petty Drug Dealers Guide PT 2
We’re Gonna Party Like It’s £19.99
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Leaky Pipes
Bartholomew Schroeder, a retired plumber, can sweat pipes and fix broken toilets, but can he mend a teenager's broken spirit?
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ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY
The delicate innards of us babies Are clean as artificial lilies: spotless and fake.
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Somewhere in Madison County...
How many trysts, made and broken here...
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