Cherrypicked stories
Chapter Nineteen: Monster Love of the Most Monstrous Kind
Kate encounters Medium and this time- she is positively restrained! But then she gets some terrible news that turns everything on its head once more.
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Katie's Christmas Fairies
Katie was excited because it was almost Christmas but she became even more excited when she woke up one morning and found a Christmas tree in the front room.
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- 486 reads
Old Notebooks
The notebooks I tore up sit in bags in the hall. There's a story in there, about a girl who disappeared; a sad poem about the moon. All the diaries from thirteen to nineteen,
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Butterfly House
They choose where they land. We hold out our hands anyway, hoping to be picked. The larger ones flatten against walls, bold and beautiful as paintings. They watch as we tred carefully,
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A Very Fine Solution III
'Solutions?' I turned and looked at the woman. Pointed at the chair. She sat. She looked good, if you liked them over forty. 'Drink?' I said. 'Why not?' she smirked at me.
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A Head Full of Bluebells
Remember the awkward attraction in a college corridor? It wasn't like the movies.
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- 815 reads
Is This Yours? (Three)
Jim stood trembling. This was totally unexpected. It had only been 20/1 in the paper. He’d tried tipsters in the past but you were lucky if they offered you something running at double odds.
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The Vacant House
The house had been under surveillance for a week or more. One of the guys lived in the same street and had been keeping an eye on its status when he wasn’t at school.
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- 536 reads
My life as a zombie.
Not much you can say really.
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Meeting at Alpha Centauri
This is the first story of the Solarian Defense Directorate series. The Gallant battle group will save humanity from an alien invasion because they already did.
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Me and Dawg
Most of the time, I have no idea of what Dawg’s talking about, and now wasn’t any different. But, I don’t want to upset him. So, I just nod. He likes it when I nod.
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- 453 reads
Jobseeker
Inspiration Point inspired short. Uses pamper, artistry, analysis and spite in under 500 words.
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Smoke
It was the smell of the fire Danny liked, the smoky tingle up his nostrils as the fire took hold.
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- 846 reads
SOMEBODY'S KID
I was in the paper shop and a gaggle of 10-12 yr old girls came in. I noticed that every magazine on their eye-level had a semi-naked young woman on the cover.
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A Story by John the Fish
There is beauty in us all ... sometimes we just need someone to remind us :-)
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The Rescue
The space shuttle Zeus was launched to investigate a mystery. What it found was a chance at a first contact with an advanced alien, but only if they could save its life. Sherzac bequay.
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- 720 reads
Without The Simple Science
Goodbye to the sea.
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The Emperor (A Tale for Halloween)
A supernatural chiller concering an English tourist couple in Egypt. Both are buying trinkets to take home. Then something attractive is noticed that is of great value and eventually great cost.
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- 844 reads
On the Beach
Nothing to do with the epic novel by Mr Neville Shute Norway but something that came into my head years ago after watching French & Saunders do a parody on Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal".
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- 453 reads
Polly and the Frog
A Dragon has kidnapped the Most Beautiful Frog in All The World...Who can save the day?
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- 1539 reads