Cherrypicked stories
The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 23/1
Now we have the 'political prisoner' - and Mari is desperate to do something about it to the consternation of both James and the disciples...
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Rise of Dragon
Bill Posters will be executed - unless they're already dead.
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The Merry Dance
Led a merry dance you and me
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 22/2
The Last Supper - the women are there too...
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 22/1
A row as they prepare the Passover meal and foreboding about the future...
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Earth Heart (2)
Tendrils searching for water. I touch and it bruises, changes, Slips from my synapses.
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Lady in White
A lone, white hood, bowed in prayer...
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Paper trail
be careful what you write
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Charged with Meaning
The crux of this story is a tale recounted to me by my friend. I hope he isn't pissed off with me for re-telling it.
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 21
James listens to Joshua digging himself deeper into trouble with the authorities and vents his spleen at what he thinks his brother is up to.
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Dream Cord
Same themes but different dreams. Some skin connection brings
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My dead diary - baiting vampires
A story of sorts in 200-word episodes. In which the writer expresses somewhat freely his distaste for his toothy undead colleagues.
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Messiah to Mummy
Messiah to mummy. Mother to brother. Mother to sister. Daughter is eldest. Daughter is best. Means she is good. Means she says yes. Prescriptions. Nineteen eleven fifty nine. Appointments.
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PEACE PIPE - CHAPTER ONE
A drama set in the future, following re-election of a fictional black President. Most action is set in a day as America security try to stop a Middle East peace plan crumbling to disaster.
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Space
A kiss spreads slow like mist and I almost forget the reason we were crying as tenuous sheets of rain cloak our sad little flat and echoes from last night are caught in drops of water.
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 20
Joshua returns to the Temple steps and gets the better of priests and Pharisees who challenge him. The crowd applauds, but what will be the outcome...?
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The Enginemen, Chapter 20
The last chapter... and it comes full circle to chapter 1 ?
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Blue on Blue
On Sundays we’d go fishing, Dad and I.
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Ex chapter 8 - Daniel meets Dorsal Grellman - the brick shithouse
The punch was delivered with animalistic precision and viscosity of movement.
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A Nice Cup Of Tea
I wake up tired, slug-headed and with a sandpaper mouth. I roll over in bed and my stomach is just a split second behind, enough to make me fear the worst but then the nausea passes.
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They say no man is an island But Browsing bruised among the status updates Tags and wallposts, well-located namechecks Furling forward like a procurator’s scroll
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T.E
You were paler the morning, as drinkers are, you were softer. With this quiet vunerability; puffy-eyed and suffering the full-blown shakes.
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Ground Control To Major Tom (Part 1)
It was a fitting start to the worst day of my life. It started off when I woke up by hitting my head off the ceiling of my bedroom, though up here it was hard to tell what was up and what was down.
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March of the Skeletons
marching skeleton martinets fresh from the farms and tenements wielding tanks and bayonets... right, left, right, left grand, valiant, bloody, bereft, England, France, England,
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Every Snowflake
Every snowflake on her face, Somehow seemed out of place. How could it settle on someone, Who never settled? Every moment ran like a race, Time never even touched her face.
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Scarred
Her little Children cry Mother's frozen in time, the light drifts in through a window of remembered love,
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The Blanket
A child’s perspective of the man made chasms between races.
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You can't go to OZ for Christmas
For my mate who is.
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Early Snowflakes
Something completely different
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 19/2
Joshua tackles injustice in the Temple and the hypocrisy of the priests - in short, he makes enemies...
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 19/1
Joshua enters Jerusalem with his followers and the crowds go wild...
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Want and Need
Want and Need (24th November, 2011) The weight of your silence makes me feel old: lead weight replacing a promise of gold. Resurrect your idol just where she fell,
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Battledene (IP)
Why Battledene? Why there? Well, it’s like this, you see. ... They don’t want me to tell you about them. They’re secret and must not be revealed. Should I? Should I not?
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The Hundred and Ten Pound Novel - Chapter II
The story continues with a couple of corrections.
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Now that you're gone, I can't quite remember which one you were - poem 3 (abroad, at sea)
I discipline the blood across my face and look for the one who makes me the one I want to be.
ABC OCD - Finally Some Good News
Due to huge public demand, mainly from Oldpesky, here is my latest on the debiltating disease ABC OCD. If you avoid reading this, you are in denial, which can lead to serious consequences.
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The Daily Muse - Wednesday, November 23, 2011
A Daily Muse for all of yous.
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De Profundis
i hunger For my youth. For those lazy, Hazy, crazy, Sperm-filled days. When my eyes Feasted with devilment, Instead of mockery, Upon the young School of nymphs That swam up
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Not Exactly Louisiana
For anyone that loves the blues
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 18/2
Joshua and his followers enter Judea and are followed by Pharisees and rabbis who try to challenge him on a number of issues on which he offends them...
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The Madonnas and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 18/1
Joshua and his disciples travel through Samaria teaching about a number of topics including debates about marriage and divorce.
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Riding on Steel
Riding through mist and pouring rain thoughts turn to shadows that drift with the scene dank steaming towns and statues in macs the boy in the window the girl who stares back
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Survivor (A lyric)
For Lilo
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Thank God I Didn’t Inherit My Father’s Nose
Just an archetypal, middle-class life with a dark-haired lawyer husband who looks remarkably like Ed Stoppard... OK, maybe an accountant who looks like Martin Freeman.
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Love and Socialism
We met infront of Marx’s tomb; watched the October setting sun; gazed up as stars rose from the gloom. I chose a star, said “You’re that one”. And then we kissed and raised a fist
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Love in a Cold Climate
Strange...I acquired no taste for olives; she adored them, she said.
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Ex Chapter 7 - She killed Batman
"Your dress is inside out" said Jonah, mainly with his hands. He was becoming animated. That was the way it always began.
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Swimming with a mermaid.
'...on a beach near you...'
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On Entering...
Silly, I know, but I half expected to see her...
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Conceptual
with a little help from Damien Hirst (though of course he doesn't know it)
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The Rally 11/11
Moggy was only too delighted to be able to return to the alternate world and join in the search for his old owner’s daughter.
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My dead diary - zombies and alcohol
A story of sorts in 200-word episodes. In which our hero learns how foolish it is to try to out-drink the undead of Clerkenwell.
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The Hundred and Ten Pound Novel - Chapter I
For better or for worse I couldn't finish it in two segments as originally thought.
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Holidays
I think I’ll get a Christmas tree this year, Even though there won’t be presents beneath it, Because you don’t come here anymore. I think I’ll string it with lights, Just to pretend
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The Little Pill
These long months of building buildings in the air, based on your beautiful hazel eyes, the scars of stories along your chin, how you pull me into your arms and once again I am home.
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The Madonna and the Political Prisoner, Chapter 17
Mari and Joshua discuss the problem of suffering and Joshua's true mission and his need to go to Jerusalem. Stepping into deep water here...
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Moon Shadows
Some things are worth repeating ;)
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The Arrivals
You can't take folk anywhere can you? A clash of cultures? Simple misunderstanding perhaps?
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sleep
to ricochet off waterfalls of light cascading at the edge and end of night, and glance off magma seas of suns at ember; to be glimpsed near glassy shores by eyes on stalks,
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