Cherrypicked stories
Breathe
The inner thoughts of a drug smuggler. A short piece.
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- 530 reads
Sparkling Emily
About a circus child.
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- 615 reads
Write for Your Audience: Write for You
Writing for your intended audience.
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- 742 reads
A Poem That's Short And Sweet
I want to write a poem that's short and sweet, that doesn't necessarily rhyme, have metre, ring or time. I'd like it to be beautiful, To speak of...
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- 464 reads
Ode to a Stop Sign
Ode to a Stop Sign It's hard to admit how much I need you, Because I really hate you. I hate your shape, I hate your color, I hate the price I have...
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- 734 reads
Still
Still Walking along that familiar beach, feet in the familiar sand, waves crashing on the familiar shore. I'm alone now, at home, all the time it...
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- 733 reads
S: 10/4/02
Work Diary Before I entered high school, and just before my mother's death, I had the braces on my teeth removed. "It's time," the orthodontist said...
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- 729 reads
Hail
Hail Hail to the Chief, that hails the flag, that hails the land, that hails the bullets and bones, upon those native bones, that hail allegiance to...
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- 689 reads
Globe*
Stand still And stretch out your arms To feel the silken skirts of countless days gone by Each performance has left an image An impression That is...
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- 903 reads
Q: 10/1/02
Work Diary, 10/1/02 It's ten o'clock in the morning and I'm sitting in a motorhome on a campsite in Wyoming. It's an odd time to be camping: the end...
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- 893 reads
Bye Bye Baby
Friendship not up for renewal - lease expired!
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- 616 reads
Not In The Office
Mr Brick looked perfectly normal that morning. He entered via the same door, wiped his feet in the same brisk manner, nodded his familiar greeting to...
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- 1246 reads
Separate
We cannot meet again for obvious reasons but do you ever remember our first glance, when I heard whispering (sometimes this can happen in tunnels)...
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- 663 reads
C Cities of Wonder Wind #3
Imagine a book, an encyclopaedia, that held the information you needed to conduct all aspects of your life. A book that could instruct you on your health, your business, the food you ate and even your future ... History tends to repeat itself. Humans don't seem to learn.Through my escape, I was running away from it all.
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- 2773 reads
B To Be Or Not to be in Vienna Wind #2
Collector of Throwaway Glances
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- 2265 reads
A World Apart - Vienna Wind # 1
On 7 July 1980 I became the enemy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ...
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- 2482 reads
P: 9/27/02
Work Diary, 9/27/02 A friend I've known since the age of twelve visited yesterday. After he left, it occurred to me that my mother has been dead for...
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- 847 reads
Beside the seaside beside the sea
Just a stony beach on a vast seafront&;#063;
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- 542 reads
X ~ Hen goes apeshit
A poem of possible future autobiographical descent into madness
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- 1067 reads
Sly Clothes
With him went the rail of shirts the empty skins of him soft as birthday gifts. The line of tilted shoes left imprints of their heels and circles in...
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- 3959 reads
O: 9/25/02
Work Diary, 9/25/02 If they stopped to think about it, people who have eaten lobster or crab could probably describe the word "barbaric" in intimate...
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- 756 reads
I - DIARY PAGE - 23 SEPTEMBER 2002
Diary Page - 23 September 2002. This morning was totally different from other days. I had spent my night on the train and early in the morning,...
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- 1062 reads
Indifference
Written under threat of war.
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- 583 reads
Easy
Clubbing in the year 20__ - but be careful what you put in your mouth
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- 670 reads
N: 9/24/02
Work Diary, 9/24/02 The human resources manager in my office has a son with cancer of the colon. He's only twenty-one. They've removed most of the...
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- 769 reads
M: 9/23/02
Work Diary, 9/23/02 I have not pressed my own clothes since the age of nineteen, when my friend's mother's iron left a burn mark on my favorite white...
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- 851 reads
Over the horizon...
Monday 23 September. Last week in the office. A weird feeling before I step into the abyss. Am looking forward to the abyss now. Scared, apprehensive...
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- 988 reads
Instruction
Take oil and pour it in your hand, some bland carrier - grapeseed or almond then drops of volatile lavender. Go against the grain, spine base to neck...
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- 763 reads
Florescent Colors in a Black and White World
One man finally gets his own little world
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- 1119 reads
Is this love that I'm feeling&;#063;
I shrink into the dark at the station carpark's edge, still on the low brick wall; a pool of flat lucozade light laps my feet moths spiral up through...
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- 1127 reads
New Friends
Could they be friends&;#063;
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- 715 reads
Our Daughters' Teeth
She left home a month ago in a matter-of-fact way. No tears were shed, no lingering goodbyes. She was leaving, not walking away. It was the natural...
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- 617 reads
L: 9/20/02
Work Diary, 9/20/02 Unlikely people whom I admire: 1. My sixth-grade French teacher, who visited California and dug through Gloria Vanderbilt's...
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- 781 reads
Remember Me - Labienus
School Memories Stirred Up
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- 661 reads
Under the Eye of the Bat
bat diary
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- 1588 reads
Empire Made
At Infants School in the 1960s
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- 666 reads
Seventy Six '76
Child becomes woman amidst the great summer of '76
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- 1193 reads
Dentist's Needle, The
Learning to live with a phobia
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- 504 reads
Estate Agent Survey
Indentations the chipboard wall from bedposts punched sex then addiction take away menus on the door mat gloss the gasbill a worn key front step milk...
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- 1516 reads
Snookers for Balls
A true story from the other side of the riverbank.
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- 591 reads
Let the children eat tripe
in praise of mayonnaise
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- 707 reads
Dark Horses
on the theme "against the grain"
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- 712 reads
J: 9/16/02
Work Diary, 9/16/02 Today is my partner's and my thirteenth anniversary. We're not legally married, since we aren't allowed to be, but what...
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- 821 reads
Ire-aq, fox-hunting and hypocrisy
There is a legitimate argument for attacking Iraq, but they're not honest enough to make it.
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- 1540 reads
J - Rewarding Job
It's not what your neighbours can do for you&;#8230;
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- 628 reads
I: 9/13/02
Work Diary, 9/13/02 Once, at a dinner party of sushi, marijuana, and bad wine, we discussed the theory that homosexuals are more creative than their...
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- 705 reads
H: 9/12/02
Work Diary, 9/12/02 Some ruminations: 1. The other night we were watching a nature program in which the narrator described the polluted, crappy,...
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- 797 reads
Visit (the)
Inside this camphor wood chest I have saved every breath, Each exhalation, in glass bottles stoppered with wax Since the day you began. Your first...
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- 467 reads
H ~ Jill reminds me of Trish
I shouldn't call these 'appreciation' pieces. It all went wrong.
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- 965 reads
Doodlebug
Doodlebug I remember now the ashtray, a silvered metal tower with a spinning disc that launched the crumpled stubs off at a tangent into the bowl...
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- 844 reads
One of us is par for the course
A joke about philosophy and golf.
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- 987 reads
Etchings
Echoes from the past
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- 3068 reads
A Requiem For One Man's Life
A Parable About The Value Of Life
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- 2596 reads
Loss
Cast the falling bones my child, draw close, the flames seductive, cast shadows in our world; caves of abandoned cries. Destructive peril,
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- 1744 reads
One year on
In remembrance of September 11th
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- 1203 reads