Cherrypicked stories
Reading in Bed
Reading in bed You stood me on end thumbed though my pages skipped straight to the part you'd enjoy you bent my spine. Beat, unbinding book moulds to...
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- 597 reads
Fragile Memories
For David, your memory lives on.
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- 496 reads
The naming of your cat
Inspired by T.S. and the eternal problem of good feline names
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- 537 reads
WHEN BILLY COLLINS MET ANNE SEXTON
She comes to see him like a pig in a trenchcoat, performing an autopsy on a candle, and tells him to flee on his donkey if he still values his old...
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- 826 reads
A Stormy Night - Chapter 1
Treachery and betrayal on the Seven Seas
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- 554 reads
Red is the colour football is the game
we need more thrills mr murdoch
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- 590 reads
Andre
I wish you could've seen today. The sun was out, And the warmth made you feel That the world was safe. I wish you could've touched my hand And known...
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- 446 reads
Tatoo
tatoo skinful of you my body is printed with your touch but we haven't said much and I miss what now feels like stolen initimacy.
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- 642 reads
Did I mention I was British
My general hatred of my nationality explained
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- 998 reads
Don't Tell
The dark side of a Bank Manager's life runs out of control.
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- 817 reads
Questions
Regret, fatique, and questions.
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- 550 reads
Fat Model
Fat Model Her breasts, like torpedoes punch out demanding their space. The dusk forms shadows around them. Yellow and brown contrast with the milk...
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- 436 reads
Bar
At The Bar Four pulls on the engine fills it full. A tiny head. Well practised in politeand useless chat, I know them all so well. I listen, but I...
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- 453 reads
Collateral Damage
He had no idea where the rest of the squad was now. Mickey Levitt had obviously bought it, he had felt the blood splatter his own face when the side...
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- 992 reads
He's 30 percent cocoa solids and he's MINE!
And what's wrong with making a boyfriend out of chocolate then&;#063; Tell me that.
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- 1087 reads
The Future of Marketing&;#063;
The best marketing campaign yet&;#063;
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- 756 reads
Two Enemies (Liquid Affairs)
There were 7 men who operated with black smiles. Focus harder now you'll have him in a crossfire. Ruby sheen on the windshield cable will have re-...
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- 810 reads
Wreckers
Disturbed by all of the commotion, when the oak was shook. Finally you wake two minutes too late. Were you ever this late? There's a fire on the...
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- 632 reads
Requiem for nothing very much
middle age middle class and muddled
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- 673 reads
Last Night You Said You Loved Me
I greet you, you bite me &; we go racin' round in my car ridin' with vertical arms. Streakin' mustang tap dancin' the light fantastic we are...
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- 694 reads
The Gorge
A man stands on a high bridge wondering what to believe.
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- 581 reads
Al Pacino's Soup
A journey through soup, snow and unrequited love.
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- 649 reads
DYING IS AN ART: Sylvia Plath
One DYING IS AN ART Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 "Dying Is an art, like everything else I do it exceptionally well." Lady Lazarus/ Sylvia Plath Early in...
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- 7336 reads
Don't question my panda
Zealots, take note.
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- 576 reads
On the Other Side of Silence
Aging before My Time
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- 805 reads
Albino Butterfly
Ripening before My Time
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- 1179 reads
Time for a Child
A minute of silence
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- 687 reads
C certainly indecisive
i'm not sure about this one
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- 623 reads
Nineteen Seventy
What did you feel the day you were born&;#063;
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- 584 reads
WINTERWOOD
Describes the awsome picture of winter woodland
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- 534 reads
V/ SUMMERS SHADOW.
In awe of her perfection...
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- 825 reads
A Moment Of Joy
Desperate times.....
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- 513 reads
Doof Doof Doof
If the Big Bad Wolf roamed today...
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- 784 reads
Best Holiday Moment
sex in the sun gone wrong
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- 632 reads
H) Paeleozoic
a present I would like to have given you, Sam x
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- 886 reads
A Bus Ride
A simple question turns into trouble.
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- 610 reads
At Play in the Cemetary
Moments and Meanderings
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- 978 reads
Ramble in the Void
Moments and Meanderings
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- 908 reads
Catz Eyez
The Acapulco tread is worn away and my exotic tyres look more like teardrops than Michelin model 471A. We are bouncing on cat's eyes as if the...
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- 776 reads
Lunacy
The perils of hitchhiking in cornfields
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- 596 reads
Tunisian shopping
Shopping Tunisia style. The narrow dark alley way cluttered full of herbs and spices, maps, puppets, sweets, wooden bird cages, glass chessboards and...
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- 595 reads
Valentines Day 1965
The birth of my EldestChild Susan in the local maternity Home
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- 1132 reads
I FOUND AMERICAN LITERATURE'S WALLET
I Found American Literature's Wallet I found American Literature's wallet last night in the parking lot of the supermarket, lying on the wet pavement...
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- 813 reads
Highway 287 South
I missed the beat generation by a decade or two.
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- 888 reads
Just a Rant
Just a Rant Sometimes I just want to write, and not give a damn if anyone likes what I say. I want to write to just feel myself. I want to hear my own cries on paper with a little free style ditty that doesn't mean a thing to anyone but me.
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- 1011 reads
Big Break
A railway boss experiences lucidity
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- 867 reads
Shiny metal casings and big nobs
reflections on writing, hobbies and game show hosts
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- 546 reads
Sixties Girls
teenagers in the sixties
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- 620 reads
The Best Things in Life
"What in me is dark illumine..." Milton
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- 589 reads
Ludmilla
How an old German woman almost drove me to the brink of insanity.
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- 550 reads
A- Metamorphosis
I woke up one day looked at myself saw pale, clammy skin a receding hairline red eyes felt ill and empty I looked in the mirror and saw nothing I was...
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- 888 reads
Z: part of story Enchanted
a story of magic, witches and good vs evil.
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- 923 reads
Big chief rude boy smacks ball over wall
Softball season's coming
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- 2480 reads
Zooming through the beat beyond
Liz driving Troy in the back i'm on the roof rack hollering like Jack here we go into the mystic Venice Beach i thought this only existed to those...
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- 1521 reads
Forest of Hardwoods
After the Ashes
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- 888 reads
Sonnet for Mona (was she a goer&;#063;) Lisa
In response to the headline "Mona Lisa was a real goer"
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- 959 reads