Cherrypicked stories
Nick Names
(Chapter 4 of the formerly-known-as 'Crazy Diamond') Before we arrived, the college sent us a list of books to read in the summer, including two...
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You Were Made for Me (2/2)
When the rich can have young people designed, grown and conditioned as their perfect companions
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You Were Made for Me (1/2)
When the rich can have young people designed, grown and conditioned as their perfect companions
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Crossing Over
Consummation of a first-love relation.
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Lunacy
A poem about 18 lines long. Now you know. Image source tumbler. No known copyright issues.
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Out On The Streets
. Out On The Streets Paul McCann Out on the streets where days turn to weeks and months to years as time disappears ,living with those without food...
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Gideon Gunther
She kept about a half-block distance between them as she followed him. Easy enough on the busy after-school streets, when there were plenty of people...
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"At Least I Didn't Whistle" [Mr Martinez Part Twenty Six]
Short and bitter (like me)... Image author's own terrible photography.
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twister
twister my mirror tells no lies I’m middle-aged, paunchy, balding, no big deal my Christmas dinner, chicken stew (with sprouts), is defrosting in the...
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gather
Pooled, this mild September day from waves of work (or guilt when not) once each year picking blackberries from prickly cataracts of free sweetness...
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A path in the moonlight
“I need a raincoat for tomorrow” – Marilyn Manson
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The Maze
The devilish labyrinth that Daedalus devised.
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Something You'll Have To Live With
Part One
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Living in the time of Corona Journal, Sept.13 entry
Sunday, September 13, 2020 It is opening day in the NFL. The Buffalo Bills will play the New York Jets today in Bills Stadium. The excitement in the...
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Carlos
Carlos mum and dad took us strolling each weekend on the Cleveland Way to Boggle Hole from Robin Hood’s Bay with unwilling me, and sister, Cleo,...
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For Now
I lay still against you With a belly full of 3am panic Your eyes shutter As you pull me in Warm words fall freely On my shoulder Your voice is the...
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September Sun on Blackdown Hills
North, up deep-wooded Black Down’s scarp to a windswept southern plateau dissected by a mosaic of secluded river valleys, carpeted by flint, chalk,...
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Preparation Moon Cycle
2 nd September 2020 Full Corn Moon. 1 st October 2020 Harvest Moon. 31 st Ocober 2020 Hunters Moon/ Blue Moon. Silver lady's grown grain wears her...
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