Cherrypicked stories
Taken by the Cleaner
A student teacher stays with his aunt but he's not what he seems, or is he&;#063;
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- 1246 reads
Dry Blackthorn day
I wake up from intensely disturbing nightmares about serial killers hunting down me and my friends. Horrible twisted psychotic people who sneak into...
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- 1303 reads
Just Puppy...
Burying my face in his soft fur I cried and cried after Ben left.
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- 1519 reads
Tattoo
At sixteen, her navel quivered Beneath inky needle Latex gloved hands Carved expertly into soft Stretch mark free skin Surrounded by the very essence...
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- 1101 reads
Version
"What do you think?" you ask about the first verse of your latest poem. Um, what can I say? It is like you are holding a lump of clay, in your hand:...
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- 1232 reads
Lucy's Small Problem
Lucy is a little girl who desperately wants to grow. Will she succeed with the help of her friend&;#0
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- 1229 reads
A) Brittle Star
about a starfish, but a friend too
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- 1052 reads
Sweet smell of Ker-ching !
Why nobody bought anything the Saturday before Christmas...
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- 1402 reads
Fantasia after Carmina Burana
Inspired by hearing Orff's music at the Albert Hall
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- 2237 reads
Quandary
These twentysix letters and some symbols are similar as the air about us, and as diffeerently formed. I fashion mine into questions and in your...
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- 1292 reads
IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS
Never trust a pretty face
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- 1550 reads
Girl on the Porch
One Shade of First Romance
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- 1880 reads
Dare!
A shop without customers provides the perfect location for a dangerous game
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- 1458 reads
THE THREE WISHES
AN OLD FAIRY TALE UP-DATED
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- 1373 reads
That's Easy for You To Say
Glimpse into the lighter side of language
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- 2436 reads
End of the Matter
From the mind of a child...
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- 1675 reads
Killing Colour
Sometimes you learn a lot about yourself
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- 1912 reads
Dry martini, be the death of me
Picking the wrong day to go into work hungover
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- 1320 reads
Pillow
The mushroom-pillow releases invisible flesh-scent spores. it's perfumed softness I embrace and inhale your sweet, sweet breath. Your smell: and...
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- 1285 reads
Night Lights
So Vince, myself and little Sam set up the moth trap long after the ripe peach sun had sunk and the other naturalists had headed for the bar.go could be.
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- 2503 reads
Cold Blooded
Who can you really trust&;#063;
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- 1513 reads
A judge of character
How wrong can one be.
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- 2446 reads
Henry Miller at Denny's
Too Long In California
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- 2176 reads
Rockets
"The planes came at nine," he said. "At two in the morning I buried my son. Then we left." "They warned us what was going to happen but we had no...
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- 1330 reads
You Can't Have It All.
2nd best - Better than nothing at all &;#063;
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- 1401 reads
Metaphors and Similes
Johnny's vision through narcotic headlamp eyes see; a dole queue like a urine stream with drained bodies like wrung swimsuits, therapist's comfort...
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- 3568 reads
S(h)OCKS
How a simple clothing item can change your life.
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- 1281 reads
Nowhere Near
Night's door opens you. I watch. Disembodied by distance a want haunts me: how you touch me and never touch me. In the past, this was enough. Now it...
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- 1310 reads
Midnight Mystery
a ghost story...
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- 1931 reads
Poet At 12 O'Clock
You say you're "always falling over with little glimpses of what it might be like to stand up." I think it's more to do with your being on the brink...
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- 1427 reads
FUNERAL OF YOUTH
Unwanted Memories of Aga's grave
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- 5287 reads
Holding on by a hand
Actually, who do I know but the person weeding deep in the woods pawing at melancholy dirt old dry dirt dirt in search of a pagan wiccan explosion of...
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- 1231 reads
Alternative Lifestyles
pallid, meek used to myself in supposition my feet are bare and make the greatest sense hobnobbing with tundra; the little flows in my wintered shelf...
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- 1319 reads
My old friend Winter
Good bye summer
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- 1375 reads
Madam Vanerre's Shuffle
a story about a generation gap
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- 1479 reads
God Is Like Paul Daniels
God Is Like Paul Daniels (Now there's a horrible thought) By Mark Cantrell Get out of my light, God, You're spoiling my view. Go sit in the corner,...
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- 1261 reads
Xerx's Bombshell
Like correcting a spelling error in Microsoft Word with a lightning fast click or removing money from one's own debit account, lies are really fast...
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- 1439 reads
Wee Sammy
Wee Sammy Preparation for work was religiously thorough. It involved the consumption of one bottle of Buckie, two cans of Breaker Malt Liquor and a...
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- 1384 reads
Dog Food
The author would like to stress that no animals were harmed during the writing of this story
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- 1411 reads
Night Shift
Bitterness Of Working Through The Night
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- 1968 reads
The Morning After
Another day another date
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- 1478 reads
Understanding
When all those around you are losing their heads
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- 2112 reads
CHildhoOD CHaptER
A Sanctuary of Human River
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- 3062 reads
Pause!
The emptiness hammers another nail into my chest. My fingers dance of their own volition, weaving intricate patterns in the empty space between the...
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- 1552 reads
Empty Road
the red dust drifts through the sleeping air the scales of light coil around my thoughts and drag hollow names from the slender ground water cased...
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- 1772 reads
This Old Man
Epiphanies in a relationship
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- 1421 reads
Anybody there&;#063;
Ever talked to yourself&;#063;
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- 1652 reads
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Inspiration Point)
Once upon a time, not so long ago, Goldilocks went for a walk in the woods, but no sooner had she got there than she realized she was wearing six inch heels.
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- 21180 reads
Las Vegas 3
“So what would happen if we didn’t give it back? If we just kept going?
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- 10708 reads
Las Vegas 2
It’s half past eight in the evening, but it’s still boiling hot. The temperature gauge says it’s 110, so the first thing we do is put the roof down.
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- 10031 reads
Las Vegas
We’ve finished laughing at the room. We’ve examined the funny fake ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that they’ve plastered everywhere.
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- 16156 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 5
another part of this
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- 10 comments
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- 8778 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 4
in a village
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- 11 comments
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- 8046 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 3
a continuation of something I started ages ago
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- 14 comments
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- 10733 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 2
I have no idea what's going to happen next
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- 6 comments
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- 6464 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South
This might be the beginning of something. Could you please say if it makes you want to read more?
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- 7095 reads