Cherrypicked stories
Yellow Dress
That crocheted yellow mini dress She made it herself on the nights they sat Side by side on the new suite. She could cook - that's for sure. Her...
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- 1004 reads
The Boats, The Beach, The Bliss Of It All
Inspired by a trip to Whitstable in the grip of depression.
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- 873 reads
The Golem
A Golem is created who plays chess
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- 585 reads
Eye, Eye
Ummm, well, maybe you'd just better read it...
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- 516 reads
Cupboard Love
When there's an ulterior motive for marriage...
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- 597 reads
Future Poem
What probably won't be. Or will it&;#063;
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- 608 reads
Sadness
Sadness After waiting for a few minutes a girl near us pointed out two silhouettes on the horizon that soon became three. Everyone was silent and...
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- 651 reads
Vain Japanese Fair
Little should surprise one who lives in a country where apartment blocks have names like Maison de libido; where buses have chandeliers and where...
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- 718 reads
BUSy
A overworked bus driver making new friends
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- 506 reads
A=They Ate the Truth
Oh, it's another weird one. I think it's worth five minutes of your life though.
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- 1078 reads
A beautiful night
A beautiful night By Sean Nelson I wanted to take Janelle to the under 21 club that night. But again and again, I'd called her cell phone, the only...
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- 1787 reads
Eight thirty a.m
Written upon arriving at school one morning, no plot to speak of
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- 458 reads
How can I grieve&;#063;
To me she's make believe
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- 677 reads
No fly by night
Who is he? the boy asked Oh, some old bloke the girl replied the statue of Icarus leans forward slightly weather scarred face tense in the gentle sun...
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- 701 reads
D - Trees Keep Their Secrets Like We Can't
Trees keep their secrets like we can't Long after we are dead they stand up tall Silently growing, strengthening, spreading Watching solidly as we...
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- 672 reads
Humphrey Smiles
A mildly erotic love story.
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- 850 reads
Whatever Happened to Edward L. Flynn&;#063;
Whatever became of Edward L. Flynn? Just a name on a monument now, and nothing more. Words and dates etched in rows into the granite, like the...
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- 406 reads
De Rigueur
Of course I am wearing the pink dress to the party tonight. It would be foolish of me to wear anything else, since it is by far the best dress in my...
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- 487 reads
Taking off &; landing during the hours of darkness
The flyboys tell me it is common procedure to dim the cabin lights when taking off and landing during the hours of darkness. I love the dark but I am...
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- 704 reads
Bees Nectar
A small vaccination from a furry, stripy doctor. I recoil at maximum velocity. A small gooey thread descends from its head like some malignant...
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- 782 reads
Feline Phantom
Ghost of an insane cat returns
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- 472 reads
Come Hell Or Elixir
Cherrylaine MacBride has a run-in with a city slicker selling illegal whiskey.
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- 934 reads
The Hand of Fatima
Is there a connection, a birth, a loved relative and an item found in a junk shop
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- 567 reads
Marigolds In Winter
Love that reaches beyond the grave.
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- 1305 reads
Lazy Ant
All of the ants are busy, all except Amy Ant. She is a lazy ant. Everyday she visits the Queen to te
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- 1037 reads
Letters
Outside Nightclouds are low And a shutout wind incessantly mourns. A single bulb desperately aids My halting wakefulness Making gum glisten As I seal...
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- 469 reads
Quackers
Lucy sees her paddling pool at the bottom of the garden. She asks her mother why the pool is out&;#0
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- 971 reads
Excerpts From Colin Brough's Journal
Colin only had one real friend.
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- 959 reads
Xylophoning
I'm feeling heat from the city outside the tack of honey the buzz of spring coaxing my spirit rising from my hive newspaper numbs me Palestine and...
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- 1814 reads
Haiku Zoo.
NOT for those of a sensible disposition. Prepare to groan..
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- 531 reads
Z) Dolphin Dreams
I had a dream but it was nothing so profound as Dr. King's. What happened was your limousine parked on quicksand and as it sank began running up a...
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- 772 reads
The Succubus
A young man learns something of value.
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- 822 reads
B= Photocopying
Can you find beauty and drama in anything&;#063; An essay on photocopiers
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- 1247 reads
Dull thoughts and shiny red shoes
It's only a short one
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- 970 reads
Ballistics Epiphanies
These bombs stain my bath
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- 767 reads
Ozella Onion
Welcome to Fruit and Veggie Land. Meet Ozella Onion, she is always crying. But not today. She has
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- 1042 reads
Fit for Life or Fit to Drop&;#063;
or, the difference between success and failure in the Age of Aquarius
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- 518 reads
Going down
An elevator with sinister powers
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- 656 reads
None of That
Thought-food for the rejected
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- 680 reads
Bad Day
The clock radio alarm jolted her awake, Jane Collins sat straight up and leaned over to turn the alarm off. She stretched and glanced at the calendar...
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- 565 reads
In The Lair
In The Lair Elsie sat silently the by the hotel window, all her attention focused on a spider's web in one corner of it. The only reason she could...
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- 660 reads
Evangelical! Enthusiastic! Electrifying!
But what on earth is Tony talking about&;#063;
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- 506 reads
Grow
Grainy mortar, once cleaving bricks together, crumbles easily between thumb and forefinger and chipped remnants of bricks are scattered on the ground...
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- 605 reads
Raining in Avignon
When the south of France had floods
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- 923 reads
Girl Friday
Welcome to the inscrupulous world of media dah-lings.
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- 554 reads
Gilding the Lily
An artist's impression
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- 965 reads