Cherrypicked stories
A Distant Thunder
The chink of money changing hands...
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Brighton Line...a review.
Sheen shines.
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- 4 comments
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- 2070 reads
Coffee, Black.
Milky latte...
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- 4069 reads
The Coming of Age. January Part 3.
16th January. At dinner Val confesses to an undying passion for Guy Prodger, her dentist. ‘He has wild eyes’ she says, ‘and looks like Niles in Frasier’
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- 965 reads
"Hi Ho Silver Lining"
“...and away you go now baby; I see your sun is shining..."
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The Goth-Wish For Winter
Goths spike the drinks of fine two fine fellows in an attempt to turn Spring back to Winter.
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You're prettier with a membrane, darling.
It's our skin That keeps us in
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The Coming of Age. January Part 2.
8th January.
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and all who sail in her.
diddy doodle
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Sweet Caroline
Don’t make me wait with bated breath to feel that thrill of flesh on flesh...
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Inner thoughts of boats out at sea
Follow my lead till we reach the door, Seek out the people who deep down we despise, We can never blame them They know not their lies,
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- 1000 reads
Uncle Stephen
old sea dog tale
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Diving head first in a world of constraint random rebellion. (DHF for short)
it was like that moment in a dream you only have twice in your life, the one where you suddenly realise that it's all a dream and the laws of physics don't apply.
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- 951 reads
Menage a Quatre ?
Phil's Story.
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W-BQ - 1
After the Great Malaise and before the Cataclysmic Event, in the time now known as the Waiting, the city of Laston was incorporated in European Judicial Zone 3 - EJZ 3 for short.
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Dream Recollection.
Last night I dreamed I had to escort a kangaroo wearing a head scarf on the London Underground.
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Triptych 1
An irreverent, realist construct painted with the linseed of memory and the pigment of pain.
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The Tender Buds of April
A flower, in all its splendour, finally opens...
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The Winds of War
Take your pick; any war will do...sadly.
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The Chain
Broken people, broken vows, and a broken marriage...
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- 1964 reads
The Coal Harbour
Samuel Collins (Sam to his friends) owned a butchers shop in Dun Laoghaire, not far from the harbour.
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The horseman - part 10 (epilogue)
A final chapter and a circle closing. If you chase after something for too long then you end up becoming it - there's nothing new under the sun.
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Daisy Runaway
A gimme shelter girl can't slow down long enough to find love.
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The Cosy Square
short 1000 word prose sketch
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Milk Boy
re-edit 31/1/ visions of the Clyde
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Silent Road
We stared at a puddle in the road The frozen surface a coffin lid Not a cloud in the empty sky It was as if the day had hid Sapped of colour beneath the branches
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Castle In The Clouds, Chapters 25 & 26
Chapter Twenty Five
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7 minutes
a short story for a competition that doesn't exist...
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Swapping seats at The Jeremy Kyle Show
An account of a visit to the infamous daytime UK talk show host.
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The Hangman
It was a pleasant period and my thoughts were mostly good ones...
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Ritardando
Spring is late this year. April is born into a cold, grey hole and the seasons are so out of sync. Perhaps it is time slowing down, for our sakes.
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waiting.
what goes through your mind, whilst you wait.
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- 3108 reads
Coal Bags
More grime and grimness
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Lizardo, the Bog Man
Where you've been and where you're going are only figments of your imagination. It's where you are that counts
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Eco-Shock
Sort of inspired by the I.P. The roguish life of nature.
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Body
A description about love, anxiety and the vulnerability of us humans.
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The Tracker
Jake sat staring into space. The rain drops made hollow thudding noises as they landed on the car windscreen.
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A funny thing happened on the way to work
One commuter lady's unusual tale. Very very loosely based on a true story...
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Freegan Fighters
An account of the issues surrounding 'Freeganism' as an ethical movement in Glasgow.
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An Ode to Coppaccino
Mourning the loss of my first place of work in Glasgow.
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Shatter .:9: Sleeping Beauty:.
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The Old Man and the Vampire
An old man, purporting himself to be the hero of Locksburg, thinks that people are taking vampires too lightly in his town.
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ChapterTwenty-Four: A Good Pot of Red Sauce
The saga is coming to an end!
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City of Secrets Chapter 3
More of Letty. Please comment so that I can continue to polish and perfect before she sets out on yet another trip to an agent.
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Half of Nothing, Chapter 1: The Twins
Kyran stormed out of the house, angry. Leon moped in their room.
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Autumn Rain
I remember such a happy childhood, grown up in the bliss of eternal autumn rain. I remember tiny droplets of stars falling from Heaven and the pollen of the Earth rising into the air.
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Headstones
The headstone fallen, broken and then lost In high forgotten grass, the brighter weeds Where only busy insects and the occasional fox Wanders by. There is only distant birdsong
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Half of Nothing, Prologue: Myself, Half Gone
Have you ever thought of what fear really feels like? Have you ever thought of what pain hurts the most?
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The Importance of a Lift-Operative Explained
Deep into the worst recession in British history, it has been decided that the MPs’ lift in the Houses of Parliament is in desperate need of an operative, a button-pusher, someone to steady the ship
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Chapter twenty-two: A Good Pot of Red Sauce
Chapter Twenty-Two
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I'm really, really, really, really good at board games
A very silly grime battle-rap that I wrote for a show called 'Dead poets' - www.deadpoetry.co.uk . The boardgames were all suggested by people who emailed me.
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chapter twenty:
The Saga continues in Chapter Twenty. Will Gianna ever find herself?
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Summer Kings
I remember it well... ;)
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The horseman - part 9
If you pick a fight with Death, there can only be one result - or perhaps not ... (what would any self-respecting story be without a suitably overblown apocalyptic climax).
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Racing: part one
The whistle blew and they were running, with a flurry of limbs and a gentle splattering sound...
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Standing army
Inspiration point 31.3.10
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Last of a Kind
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
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Freeze Frame (I.P.)
Good as dead – long before I hit the water.
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a regrettable experience
Prozac pills scattered across the floor, discarded like the innocence. Snatched away too many times, and tonight I’m as guilty as the men that do it to her.
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Strawberry Milkshake
Strawberry Milkshake I sit in a dining room chair and waste an hour talking to you via MSN. We discuss news, politics, weather, the meaning of life but nothing which actually matters
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- 1695 reads