Cherrypicked stories
I thought I saw you
I thought I saw you last night, Walking briskly through Paddington Station. I thought I saw you, Your hair brushed by an unknown breeze, A secret...
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- 936 reads
Untitled fragment 2 - a poetic evolution
Original ----------------- dry stagnant fragments of burnt summer dragged through saline warmth and nurtured steam intoxicated segments of fire,...
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- 953 reads
Dark Game
( Dark Game: a story from the musalchemist chronicles. An Off-shoot from Vinyl Magic and Immortality. It's not necessary to read Vinyl Magic or...
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- 1073 reads
Trying to Find the Good in It
egypt...
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- 1365 reads
Memories of London
Memories of prologues and cities
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- 3771 reads
A - Chapter One
It all starts here...
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- 2888 reads
Early Flowers
Early Flowers Clare chatted inanely to the girl in the next seat, as strangers do when forced together. She told her that she was flying over to see...
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- 603 reads
Just play that tune
Whoever holds my life strings Up there, miles high Or down there, deep in fire Flutter your fingers As though playing some great piano Touch the...
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- 969 reads
You, an Aphex dream
Waiting for sleep while listening to Aphex Twin
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- 1365 reads
Kumbh Mela
When 30 million people get together to bathe at the confluence of three rivers (one of which is imaginary) one knows that it is going to be a pretty...
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- 1207 reads
AGONQUINESQUE
Written after talking to algonquin people in Manawaki Quebec Canada
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- 1191 reads
Gnocchi
A story from the Italian East End of Edinburgh
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- 837 reads
Meadow
I still see the birches shudder from its past, The buttercups cupping the tears of the weeping skies, Oak trees in their scenic silence As they shy...
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- 690 reads
Without you
under the influence of Bridget jones
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- 1445 reads
Sally and me
'You have not loved' she says her eyes are large her face is pale 'You have never loved, that is why you are so cold' 'I have loved' I say, my face...
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- 1346 reads
Cinnamon and the Mystery
anti-heroine tries to make it rich
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- 1325 reads
Shreveport
A boy and a girl on a search
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- 1100 reads
Chasing rainbows thru the midnight sky
loves impossibilities
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- 834 reads
C: Flattened and Flattered
wouldn't know how to describe it
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- 1324 reads
Foggy Sunday (Dec !)
It was so foggy this Sunday as if the bloke meant to be painting today's views and distances and stuff just said "Sod it, it's tooo cold" and...
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- 905 reads
Male Answer Syndrome
Psychobabbler
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- 864 reads
Fists
"Do I know you from somewhere? Why do you leave me wanting more? Why do all the things I've said sound like those stupid things I've said before?" It...
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- 936 reads
The House
The House Oh come to the party do Come and hover 'round the light The invitation's pages long Naive and very trite Technicolored flavour drinks In...
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- 772 reads
Like I had found
Policy Vs politics
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- 890 reads
Y/ KISSING THE BREATHALYSER.
Sober now you're gone...
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- 963 reads
Pig Snout
PIG SNOUT ------------- Dignified as only a pig can be rejoicing in the luxuriant splendour of societies, piddling, wriggling, mess. Oink-`I saved...
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- 923 reads
Games, "Bored Games"
Would you kill your boss &;#063; What if he promised you a raise if you would &;#063; &;#063;
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- 1322 reads
Winter Dreams
I dream like fish in spring of slanted green shaded sun bed haze ripples of silence through pollen mist and rustle reed those dragonfly days
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The one who had no smell
starts like a love story, but really it's about smell.
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- 672 reads
What we see if we choose to look
sliced upon slate my glowing spark in a lost fireplace we see only what our eyes allow drift on billowing currents of warmed air and mud leaves...
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- 977 reads
Tainted painting
One for the tabloids
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- 1084 reads
Special Church Parade
An Interlude in Wartime
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- 893 reads
Human Cage
Compelled, pressured, push and prodded, Placed on a pedestal of ice, Worshiped like a winter god, An April fool about to die, I feel the world is...
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- 969 reads
Sunflowers
Sunflowers, she said to me I put them under my bed For safe keeping Her syllables Turning me in my sleep Safe sleeping. Later on in life i use The...
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- 662 reads
The Island
The Island. Wrapped in the golden beams of the warming sun Lee sat on the deserted beach. She thought over her time on this island, and all it had...
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- 676 reads
Room for you
For the people on ABC tales....there are a lot of you to name...but I know who you are....
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- 968 reads
Learning Not To Touch Bubbles
When I was little picking up my crayons I'd first have a picture behind my eyes, try to take it out, make it real on paper, always get frustrated...
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- 845 reads
It
A disease where people are literally "stuck up their own arses"!
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- 1041 reads
Women &; Madness: Part 1
Victorian: From red rooms to blue peaks.
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- 969 reads
Madness &; Women:Part 2
Psychiatric modernism: Women in the drawing room.
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Business is Business
Murders are like busses. You wait ages to be asked to do one then two come along together
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Realpolitik At The Refuge
A strong-minded woman is hard to beat.
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- 709 reads
Immortality
Immortality Part I Urban Myths " Have you heard the urban myth about the statue of fate?" Tom asked. "Yeah, the ghostly statue who turns a page in...
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- 936 reads
INTERMISSION
INTERMISSION Frank Donatelli had seen the opera enough times to know that when Baron Scarpa swears to Tosca, "For you I will forsake salvation!" the...
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- 877 reads
A Snapshots
Dishonesty is Sometimes the Best Policy
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- 873 reads
A strange kind of illness
Matthew sat in his locked office and prepared to do it again. No one knew. Not even his wife. It was a strange kind of illness, so invisible, but so consuming. He was surprised that it had happened to him. http://www.cooperking.co.uk
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- 1082 reads
Mother
The old ways are not always the best
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- 846 reads
Sun
Sunlight masks Silt thick Silk rich Slithers, drips Slips Seived through Leaf lips To scatter Flicker Worm Into my skin
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- 972 reads
Tv Listings
TV Listing from a few years ago
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- 832 reads
The Awakening
The Awakening I awoke in a daze not sure if I was really here. I had been ill in the night. And my sleep had been disturbed with restlessness and...
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- 1036 reads
Chocolate, Strawberries, &; Champagne
A taste so silky smooth Sweet flavor, a natural Aphrodisiac Warm colors of Brown, Cream and a deep rich Black The defenses are now low, and ready to...
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- 815 reads
Tuppeny Blues
Dishonesty among thieves
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- 1068 reads
Along the road
along the rainy highway you let me slip my hand under things of cotton along the two-lanes of southern georgia we sat locked eye to eager eye along...
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- 1160 reads