Cherrypicked stories
Slatternly Sluts and Bodacious Bimbos
Helen Garfunkel, an unemployed reference librarian, is contemplating a romantic tryst with a hotdog pushcart vendor.
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- 14 comments
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- 7097 reads
Let's Start Again
Competition Entry
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- 23 comments
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- 4969 reads
When Classically Trained Musicians Meet And Make Love - IP
It makes sense if you understand musical terms.
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- 29 comments
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- 9385 reads
X Leaves A Flower - entered for the Margaret Reid Competition!
x leaves a flower - poetry
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- 11 comments
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- 3569 reads
Bill and the UFO21
the angels paradox
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- 4 comments
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- 1405 reads
Love is lacking
LAC stands for looked after child.
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- 14 comments
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- 2739 reads
Gymnopédie (I.P.)
Like going back in time, when I heard that tune today.
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- 15 comments
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- 3152 reads
Song Without A Cage (IP)
Thinking about this week’s IP, it occurred to me that no one needs to be transported by music more than those who are confined to a prison of some kind.
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- 13 comments
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- 3251 reads
Endless Night
She moves like sunlight through my every day And turns my mornings languid and so slow The afternoons that never go away With evenings that will grow and overflow
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- 4 comments
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- 1252 reads
The Missing Madonna, Chapter 14 'The Refugees'
Customs and Immigration problems for our refugees - has the world changed?
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- 1 comment
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- 760 reads
Let’s Start Again
Competition entry
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- 6 comments
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- 2373 reads
The Burning
This happened last friday, and still it smokes...
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- 17 comments
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- 4365 reads
Let's Start Again
Competition Entry.
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- 30 comments
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- 8931 reads
Crime Scheme Illumination
Contains scenes of violence
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- 23 comments
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- 6475 reads
A Northerly Breeze
Kisses and intimate embraces .
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- 20 comments
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- 7774 reads
The Missing Madonna, Chapter 13 'Mari's escape'
Mari's response to Joseph as they leave Bethlehem, fearful that they may be arrested any moment by Herod's soldiers.
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- 1 comment
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- 811 reads
The Other Railway Children, 'An increasing awareness'
The impact of Big Brother and Slumdog Millionaire on Railway Children's public awareness.
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- 2 comments
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- 1566 reads
A Moment in Time
I was ten - you were twelve...
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- 21 comments
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- 6024 reads
Friday Night at Hong Bin Lo
What it says...
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- 1 comment
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- 1442 reads
Bill and the UFO20
like milk curdling.
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- 7 comments
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- 1631 reads
three trick pony
a drama in seven acts
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- 10 comments
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- 2767 reads
All my seasons of grass
with Wimbledon just round the corner it got me thinking and reminiscing..
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- 29 comments
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- 9645 reads
Pipistrelle
Hundreds upon thousands of tiny bats Are beating their thin wings To welcome the night. A flutter falls As the darkness descends And their voices call: A nocturne at once urgent
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- 4 comments
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- 1338 reads
Mr Hocking
The secret ingredient In Mr. Hocking’s case Was a thick West Country accent And the crystal clear conviction That it was the seaweed above all else Which made his ice cream the best,
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- 7 comments
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- 2048 reads
Let's Start Again
Took a few risks here. Hope structure isn't a drag. Comments not expected - I know I don't give many - but anything's a bonus. Thanks for reading if you do.
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- 9 comments
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- 3845 reads
Sister Story
I remember my sister being odd. In fact, I can’t recall her inspiring any other real memories.
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- 8 comments
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- 2189 reads
The other Terrence Oblong
It was Nick Clegg who made the announcement. There still wasn’t enough competition in society he said.
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- 7 comments
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- 2207 reads
Forty Minutes
Forty minutes left to live. Of course, my lawyer could walk in at any time and say that the Governor has granted me a pardon.
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- 7 comments
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- 2543 reads
smothering your face in a coloring book by candlelight
you will receive a pile of crayons and the whole process will start all over again
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- 3 comments
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- 910 reads
Bruise
Blades and bottles, blood and bourbon
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- 6 comments
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- 3367 reads
Marshmallow
Yesterday was most eventful. I discovered that maple syrup can serve similar functions to honey, and can in fact make a refreshing change.
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- 4 comments
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- 1261 reads
Google Mail
wraps up my emails like foetuses curled up inside each other. Twins consume twins; Too many teeth and not enough fingers. Replies folded inside replies;
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- 3 comments
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- 1133 reads
Bloom
This started life as a complicated flash-back format piece with the clunky device of a ferris wheel joining the present sequences with the past. This is more linear.
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- 2 comments
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- 1684 reads
Let's Start Again?
No – this isn’t a poem...
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- 15 comments
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- 4200 reads
Bathroom
The man on the Tesco Value shaving foam watches me whilst I brush my teeth.
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- 5 comments
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- 1566 reads
Eyebrow
I’m trying to figure out if my therapist is raising an eyebrow or if his face is just angled that way.
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- 4 comments
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- 933 reads
bad writing
when words have more than words with each other.
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- 4 comments
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- 1072 reads
doing it toronto style
sixty seconds after i sat down behind the desk they brought in the girl
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- 2 comments
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- 1460 reads
Bird
Never met a man so uncomfortable in his own skin and I love him. That makes me a nutter. Didn't work that out for myself- I've been told enough times.
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- 15 comments
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- 3557 reads
Pithy Portrait #1
Hi, I’m Kathleen. I hate you. I pretty much hate all of humanity, actually. You’re all idiots – it makes me so angry. Lots of things make me angry. Like you. And
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- 3 comments
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- 764 reads
Inching Toward Home
Howard is driving his car down the M11. Gloria sits beside him, not quite sleeping. He is taking them home after times spent in places North of the places where they spend most of their days.
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- 4 comments
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- 931 reads
"Let's Start Again" (Lone Sock )
...a talking sock walks alone...
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- 16 comments
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- 2954 reads
Lebkuchen
I thought at first you were calling me by a term of endearment which you learned from your pen-friend in Germany; a word you had gracefully deciphered from her slanted, dotted hand.
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- 7 comments
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- 1599 reads
Lindsay
I don’t know why, Lindsay, but last night, smoking in the stone cloisters of the quadrangle, I thought of you.
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- 22 comments
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- 7052 reads
The Invisible Hand
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner...
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- 5 comments
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- 2208 reads
THE SPRING TIME OF LIFE
New beginnings!
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- 30 comments
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- 11070 reads
I wish i had never met you...
not sometimes but every fucking day every hour every minute and every deep breath i inhale i wish i had never ever met you and then i could sleep i could count sheep
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- 4 comments
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- 926 reads
Let's Start Again
comp entry
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- 7 comments
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- 2249 reads
Sweetness
Emotions run high in this grasshopper love story. A quick one I put together with the intention of illustrating it.
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- 1194 reads
The Other Railway Children, Chapter 12 - the UK
Continuation of the chapters from the account of the Railway Children charity - which works with runaways in the UK as well as street children in India and East Africa.
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- 600 reads
hairline fracture
“We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.” -Martin Sheen
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- 2 comments
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- 565 reads
Let's Start Again
Competition Entry
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- 516 reads
If you meet me, have some sympathy 14
A story in approximately weekly 200 word instalments. He's a devil with a conscience and she's an angel with problems and everyone's out to get them. That sort of thing ...
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- 9 comments
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- 2525 reads
Let's Start Again (ii)
Competition Entry
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- 2 comments
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- 1244 reads
samsara begins
in the hospital amid flowers and visitors, baby yawns and samsara begins here begin joy and hope, fear and adversity, desire and discipline a beautiful son formed in wondrous detail
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- 8 comments
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- 1610 reads
Lying in the Grass
Going out to dinner On the other side Of town At some fancy Crowded restaurant Drinking bitter Overpriced wine Never really Interested me
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- 20 comments
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- 4300 reads
Work Makes Man...
Work for me started in a shiny forecourt where a hundred men’s aspirations were crafted into a new BMW 7 Series.
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- 3 comments
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- 1213 reads