Cherrypicked stories
Last Regrets
A man faces his fears, does he win&;#063;
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- 567 reads
Lewisham Half-Breed
A middle aged tracks down the father he never knew
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- 885 reads
Here is the News
A TV news team is faced with a moral dilemma
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- 844 reads
Verse vs Meaning
Some people try to flower their verse with metaphor, simile, rhyme, or any other literary mediums available to them; They use long words, or even...
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- 634 reads
Rain on the Cobblestones
A childhood memory - running away - briefly.
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- 574 reads
Beauty and the big sleep
A spinning wheel was never involved
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- 1036 reads
Malice towards origami
Such a wildly useless craft. Just can not get excited over bits of crumpled paper, however much like birds or frogs they look. Such an impossibly...
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- 698 reads
The difference
I wandered round what you said about us being superior to animals because we do good things for no reason but I wonder if the reason's that it makes...
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- 802 reads
So this is Labour
This really hurts, she moans.
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- 587 reads
Do you know where the cervix is, chaps&;#063;
My first ante-natal class.
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- 675 reads
Who is Tulovski?
A young couple are visited by a ghost in their cottage in Whitby.
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- 1398 reads
Q) Your Ghost
I know you are here, I can smell you
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- 915 reads
Just a week in Brooklyn
He loped around Bethnal Green the fragrance of Scorsese's New York still clinging to his overcoat a fading comfort like Frank Sinatra the gangsters...
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- 1564 reads
Swimming in the wake
he loved the scent of a woman someone he didn't know a stranger who passed him in the street or sat next to him on a bus a friend had once told him...
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- 1333 reads
The Grandmother, the Chicken Curry and the Fox
An old Indian folk tale
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- 933 reads
A Love Song
I want to hold you so close That I hear the sound of you Filling me to my shore's furthest limits. You, the sea, Me, your encircling coastline.
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- 737 reads
You
In you there is stillness. I find the balance At which the bubble steadies and slows At the apex. The spirit level, Paradoxically, startlingly...
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- 689 reads
Relax
friday afternoon stretches into oblivion all I want to do is leave the building time seems still though feel trapped within these 4 white walls the...
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- 1547 reads
Wigan is Wonderful
Oh Wigan town (Oh Wigan town), Is wonderful (Is wonderful), Oh Wigan town is wonderful. It's full of tits, fanny and football. Oh Wigan town is...
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- 1532 reads
D - The Dragonslayer
Is it enough to leave the world the way you found it&;#063;
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- 1250 reads
Cutlery
a curved reflection all upside down. it scoops up the glow of the strip light in this kitchen this kitchen full of knives the knives have matching...
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- 656 reads
Pity
I want to talk to you but I am not convinced: It is tumbling, which I fall over, pick myself up from. Thus it is possible to unpick even the simplest...
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- 575 reads
Gone
today my get up and go has got up and gone. yesterday there was you and me. today there is you and her. tomorrow there is me.
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- 643 reads
A Night at the Roxy
How to be an Expat in Taipei
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- 753 reads
I Love My Glasses
I love my Glasses Glasses are neat They make me look rugged They make me look sweet Yes ! I Love my Glasses 'Glasses Forever!!!' When I'm in my...
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- 464 reads
Chicken
An account of young boy's flirtation with destruction.
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- 1041 reads
F-The Beer and Fags Diet:Chapter Five: Fags
Killing me softly....
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- 743 reads
F-The Beer and Fags Diet:Chapter Five: Fags
Killing me softly....
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- 793 reads
It's Oh So Quiet
A spooky tale about neighbours from hell.
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- 1138 reads
Question from hell.
Sometimes people ask the darndest things.
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- 1008 reads
B: The second bit
Marvin didn't pass my window the next day. I put it down to the tears of the day before, thinking that perhaps he had been unwell and that was why he...
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- 941 reads
Q: Rhombus falls apart
New : Rhombus Falls Apart
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- 645 reads
Jubilee Line Southbound
Tube train pulls in rain. Hoards, board and thrust in stale air where curried sweat mixes with the perfumed stench of another working day. I pray my...
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- 1749 reads
Silence
Where no one can hear you scream.
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- 1177 reads
Picture Holes.
sinister story of murder and obsession.
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- 1128 reads
A Moment's glance
Who left the bathroom tap running! ? And the Hall light has been burning all night! Your face had that 'Sorry' look on. But in a moment,, It had gone...
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- 425 reads
Back Set
That poem you sent; the one that cured me of my temporary mania, read it to me will you? For I want to be reminded of your saving me. Thank you for...
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- 748 reads
Down and out writer
Once; back then I grabbed and tore at things, revealing the brush strokes and soft charcoal that lay under normal wrappers, and the ignorant would...
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- 676 reads
The Silent Room
I turned off the TV, "lets have a cup of tea dear, before we go up", I said Then I remembered You were outside, Locking the garden shed. "Don't be to...
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- 484 reads
Falling Stars
A young couple go to watch stars die
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- 603 reads
Argument
I sat on the faded carpet as you lazily heated some noodles. your shadow danced on the wall, the chopsticks holding your hair in place. We ate in...
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- 551 reads
DOZENS OF DUCKS
How to settle old scores!
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- 554 reads
POTTERY COMES TO LIFE
WHAT CAN A WITCH DO WITH POTS&;#063;
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- 593 reads
The Song My Mother Sang
A Song of Life
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- 537 reads
The Playground
Reminiscences of a 60s school playground
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- 827 reads
Free
Is this what it's like For gulls Free wheeling Between the sun and sea? Do they hear space? A stream Plays with light, Each stone A note; Do fish...
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- 851 reads
Granny's sayings
Wise words from an elderly lady
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- 5307 reads
Lying like angels
So this is the answer to life after death?
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- 4712 reads
Severed Heads Of Praha
Apparitions of severed heads appear at sunset on the Charles Bridge
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- 916 reads
E-The Beer and Fags Diet:Chapter Four:Beer
I've always had a drink problem, always been a pisshead.
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- 704 reads
The Redbury Exit
Giving notice with style
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- 741 reads