Cherrypicked stories
Just About Normal
blah blah blah diary
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- 1550 reads
R - Odi et Amo
Meaning 'I hate and I love' but here they are the names of two vagabonds stopping at a hotel
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- 1118 reads
Priest
His confessional is a musty dusty cupboard of sundries in the Parish hall. No prie dieu for contrite bended knee we sit together side by side.
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- 1833 reads
A - Slow motion, soft focus....
Deborah wonders how much longer she can stay with Daniel
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- 1168 reads
Flung
I flung that red rose at you on St. Valentine's Day. I flung you around in my arms in the park like we were lovers in a true love story. I flung you...
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- 414 reads
Of Noise
The noise from the bus Interrupted us As we spoke today As we do And if I was single I would ask you out
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- 938 reads
O - The turtle's song
Last one, and it'll be rosier by Friday. Man interviews turtle. Wants to use shell for metaphor.
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- 1086 reads
M - Whores, or Fricatrices
More accusations against mankind, who, the poet suggests, are whores without their hats
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- 1963 reads
Feeling Strange
If you squint, it could be a diary entry!
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- 974 reads
Casualties
Any soldier, any war, anywhere
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- 596 reads
I Need You - July 16 2002
For Someone
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- 790 reads
Why I Don't Believe in Love
..
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- 1290 reads
J - An Emperor's second-hand rag
The hard sell technique of the salesman beneath one's very hat - laid bare
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- 1004 reads
Us, Arriving Here
nothing has been harder work i am all sweat like an explorer ropes have been fastened in unfathomable knots variously a mist obscured the view i grew...
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- 1745 reads
Keep Your Racist Trash Away From My Kid!
My daughter's first experience with Racism.
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- 610 reads
Sexism Is Alive And Well On Madison Avenue
Tired of those embarrassing feminine hygiene ads&;#063; So am I!
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- 573 reads
In Community Care
Rose emerges from psychiatric hospital
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- 823 reads
E - Letting Go
One of my older stories, placed second in the 2002 Fish Short Story Competition.
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- 1028 reads
Education&;#063; pass
Karl Wiggens'writing exercise
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- 834 reads
I - This man is suffering the raging pleasure
...of resentment. Here the voice tries to justify its loathing of another, but how cruel!
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- 1068 reads
Victoria Park
Victoria Park at dawn a chorus of leaves rustling her from whiskey sleep to dappled day the pipsqueak crows of midwicket long hop dewed worms as she...
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- 1581 reads
Foot and Mouth on World Book Day
Foot and Mouth on World Book Day
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- 585 reads
A Secret Life
About being distracted, little things that overwhelm the big picture and loosing what matters
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- 748 reads
B: A Small Price to Pay
Bob and Joan's different vacations...
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- 912 reads
O is for four crustaceans and a funeral
I was never going to actually use the knife...
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- 810 reads
E - The Villain
The sordid confessions of an actor born to play the cad, the fiend and the rogue
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- 1066 reads
I see Insects and Fish.
Insects in huge brick ships cooking their dinners and munching their leaves, (with mouths that frighten one all the same) oblivious to our bipedal...
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- 758 reads
Filth
In the future, small black rectangles are all that holds the fabric of society together.
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- 636 reads
D - Come into the light, Assassin
Beckettesque Waiting for Taxi scenario, 'cept the taxi arrives at the end, and there's cigs.
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- 1424 reads
Hats Off, Gentlemen
Ruthlessly (perhaps not enough?) edited for the book
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- 1305 reads
Only At Weekends
Only At Weekends I watch as you inhale, And hold Then release, bubbling over your lips, The sweet smoke of rebellion; Your parents know nothing, They...
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- 597 reads
Pickles
The imagination of a child is a wonderful thing...
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- 816 reads
Many Happy Returns
Love blossoms in a card shop
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- 655 reads
X) Careful
Every woman has the right to do with her body as she chooses
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- 2306 reads
Just another dumb blond
I got a B+ but I really deserved a B-
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- 648 reads
V?sum et Approb?tum
Revised version
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- 674 reads
On reflection
Waiting for the pubs to open, daniel sees his ex-girlfriend across the road
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- 898 reads
Chapter Three
Fictional Novel:chapter three(The Sculptor)
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- 781 reads
TOGETHER ALONE.
Temptation in a graveyard.
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- 766 reads
Orbit - July 05 2002
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
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- 727 reads
Z - Sunshine
Sunshine walks the lawn...
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- 1568 reads
Eary Morning in Transylvania
No vampires here. Smelly trains, though.
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- 654 reads
Vacuum - July 04 2002
In space nobody can hear you scream
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- 796 reads
Ends of Gardens
Tonight I am covering a music practical lesson at the prison. The men don't seem to need any input from a tutor, they tell me their usual teacher...
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- 1605 reads
Zuzu's Petals
Once a romantic he loved the air scent of sweet pea the drama of youth read visionary books but became blinded truth and fiction merged him began...
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- 1512 reads
P) The Final: Germany v Brazil... from Berlin
I made hard work of getting to Berlin. My mind has given up and left me to face my decisions alone. What could have been a restful journey from...
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- 800 reads
DROWNING SORROWS
Humorous fiction
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- 1246 reads
Les souvenirs d'une autre verit?
After time memories can become like souvenirs of a different truth
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- 897 reads
Freefall - July 02 2002
In Space and Time
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- 878 reads
Photograph
photograph I used to believe that photography was the one true Romantic artform. All about the instant, capturing the moment, seizing the spaces in...
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- 775 reads