Cherrypicked stories
The Coming of Age. April Part 3
Jessica thinks about shoes and Poppy moves on.
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Happy Ever After - A Fairy Tale Adventure
A topical fairy tale: shouldn't they be timeless?
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Legends of the Second Age - Elemental Inheritance - Chapter 1
After stealing the flag from the Imperial warship, Deegan escape's the Vigilant. Or so he thinks.
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The Coming of Age. April Part 2.
Granny duties
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Hunting For Dreams
It was indeed an opportunity to share with loved ones. And seek forgiveness for hasty words left behind, not so long ago.
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The continuing appeal of Tombo Harrison
One hundred and seventeen years after his death, the continuing appeal of Tombo Harrison remains a mystery to many.
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Goodbye to April
(Edit 1.05.2010) She rocks to sleep as the chair sings its own, sweet elegy to the passing of time.
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The Coming of Age.April Part 1.
Liquorice allsorts ande the Pink Rolls Royce.
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Lines
When we awoke that morning and parted, the curtains, it was me who spotted it first; The lines of our lawn, skewered in the centre by a small charcoal tree, ever-black instead of green.
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Cold Comfort
Time to move on now, Mrs. Jones; to cross the i’s and dot the t’s...
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Hopeless Case
A day in the life of a Hopeless Case
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Fred And Rita
about not very much...
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Wyrm 3
Not a sequel - just a series of stories, loosely connected by our scaly friends.
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The Guinea Thief - Chapter 10 Between the devil and the deep grey sea
Chapter 10 of Jack and Delphine's story
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Tory Fodder
Tory Fodder They sat at the table Drinking the finest claret From the vineyards of bleeding souls The deep red was drunk in abundance And stained their hands
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Don't flake out on me
if me and you stick at it don't set our sights on unrealistic goals then we will both get our carriage clocks a handshake from the CEO
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May God protect your home
one day I saw an ambulance and was so relieved the next day when you were out in the garden again a trowel in your hand
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Dog for sale!
I've got a Jack Russel that could live up to this ;)
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The Prodigals
She crushed us into boulders, curled us into roses. Rejected. Not the perfection she wanted. In this sin-bin we strike cubist poses.
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Calming influence
We used to be fast flowing back then, The corridor was awash with kids. Our walls rippled with their thoughts. Our stairwell streamed imagination, Among the roar of their depth,
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Dialogue
The disintgration of a love story. A very small small section from a larger piece of writing.
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A Vague Attitude
A father returned from death. But now the grave wants him back, and it will use any means necessary to succeed.
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The Pear Drop Girl
Sometimes there is a moment in your life that you remember, if vaguely, forever. You compare then to now and then to the future.
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Nothing, not finished
I saw something at the weekend, and it changed the way I see the world. It was nothing special, no big epiphany or massive Feng-Shui style life change. Non of that superficial bullshit.
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Office honesty
Keith Fleming from HR is talking to me but I say nothing. I don’t need to. I know from experience that he’ll keep talking whether I respond or not. Possibly whether I’m even here or not.
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The Academy's Final Reckoning
Some people's lives are like a movie.
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It's the little things
A word or a sentence a phrase or a saying, a sideways look a glance, a soft touch. It's the little things that get me, so that i can't breath even with all the love i receive.
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Cloud Atlas - a review.
Written some time ago but Ewan brought it up so...
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The Wind is a Peanut
I want to make the wind wobble
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when you rush out.
When you leave someone behind to think about why you've left them.
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Two Tabs of Codeine and a bowl of Rogan Josh
I’m sitting in an Indian restaurant and there is a woman looking in at me from outside.
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Biter Bit (Gregg)
Could only get a 1500 or so worder out of him. Sorry.
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Too late to talk to Benny2
pub chat
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Someone Once Told Me I Was Like A Munchie
An almost-lunchtime bit of tasty nonsense.
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The Box
I was never allowed to look in it. It was always locked; Though she would fiddle with its catches And rusty leather suitcase hinges. One day when she was out,
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Fear of Falling
The fallen; easily forgotten.
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Wednesday Sonnet: The Actor to the Audience
When I still had the sunlight in my hair I thought the gods of theatre had misspelt My stage directions; was I Caesar’s heir? I did not feel the quiet others felt
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What girls should do
200 words.
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An Old LP
A few months ago I picked up a record to play, Nana Mouskouri Sings White Rose of Athens in German, and remembered how I had bought it exactly 40 years earlier, on holiday ...
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The Betrayal
The Betrayal
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The Sunken City
Ben lay recumbent, strewn across the balcony, the searing heat of the mid morning sun rousing him.
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mornings.
One of those mornings.
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Farewell to my Muse ...
I am now empty I am … Yin without Yang Strawberries without cream Love without hate Simon without Garfunkle For … Late last night I caught my Muse packing his bags I pleaded
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Pops
We buried Pops in his Sunday Best On that wet November morn I stood there in MY Sunday Best Shattered Tattered Torn “Private Viewing” an hour before
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City of Secrets Chapter 4
The next chapter of City of Secrets. The plot thickens and my need for comments grows.
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A lot can happen in a heart beat
A lot of things can happen in a heart beat, gallons of blood can gush through vians around the body in a full, never ending loop. A lot can happen in a blink, you lose sight of whats infront
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Aldgate East
It had been a difficult day for John Harper. This was the fourth time that he had visited the East London mosque in the last couple of weeks, and each visit seemed to be getting harder.
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eva and ania
Nazi horror.
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9. Pee in the sink, what else can you do?
Promise not to pee in the sink?
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Tommy Turner
you need faith
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The Coming of Age. January Part 4.
26th January. My next door neighbour Fran, on the other side from Tripletmother, was almost normal until she took up Counselling.
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21°C
a short piece about nothing at all...
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Kashmira
The way the sun leaked through the blinds it drew lines in the air like a musical staff.
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SHAIKH-DOWN: Brits need tits
24-year-Londoner Eddy Lawrence "borrows" a pair of boobs to pass his driving test on the Persian Gulf island of Belaj.
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A Distant Thunder
The chink of money changing hands...
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Brighton Line...a review.
Sheen shines.
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