Cherrypicked stories
If you meet me, have some sympathy 18
A story in 200-word episodes. Travelling through cyberspace has its excitements and perils. This is probably neither but, well, it takes all sorts ...
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Trains
We are sorry to inform you, But the cancellation’s due to, The weather being too hot, And it’s snowing quite a lot, There’s a curry on the track, The driver’s hurt his back,
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Seals
Smooth and shy, and hard to spy peeping from the water. Watch them gliding, swimming by – agile under water. When they leave the sea they heave – pull with each front flipper,
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Silence
So I scream to you, in silent bursts of pain you must never hear, leave me something to remind me of the beauty we once shared.
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I was an idiot at that party
'Someone's drank my beers' a man who seemed kind said
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The Kiss
the kiss was light like spring air—! only the arc of our lips grazed, touched, fanned, frisked, stippled, skimmed, nipped, nicked, pawed at, shook hands with each other
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I am an addict
Light falls on your closed eyes closed without rest I am an addict in the body of a sober man no need to think of death now it comes only once one day it will descend
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A far cry from instinct
We are accelerated primates, bones splint by our own speed, our reflexes artillery, even in peace.
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Boycey2
tears for fears, well not quite.
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In Rajasthan
I spy you from a long train traversing the dusty plains armed Sikhs fore and aft guard us from dacoits while we admire views of ancient citadels crowning sandstone escarpments
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All change here
Additional stop at Great Salvation
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Amber
what's the worst that could happen?
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Get Into The Light: Chapter Eleven- We'll be Brilliant, Just Remember That
The band performs at the Paradiso with mixed results
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Home For the summer
Home for the Summer Both under my roof for a while a short time tick of a while a bird chip chip trill of a while pink pink, peewit peewit scuffle and murmur Just those few days
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Perforations in the Reading.
"...recipes to die for..."
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That Title from a Better Man I Stole (R.L. Stevenson)
There is a company which manufactures elevators called Schindler. I just couldn’t resist it. This piece is inspired by the thought of ‘Schindler’s Lift’.
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I Thought of Jack Kerouac
I thought of Jack Kerouac Today as I entered The public library Eyes down Rolling Rolling Along the tiled floors Pen warm Tucked between My ear and skull
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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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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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bicycles
you've seen them, right?
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Let's Start Again
Competition Entry
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- 1990 reads
Let's Start Again
Competition entry
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Let's Start Again
Competition Entry
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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
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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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Homespun
Like a quilt of many colours...
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