Cherrypicked stories

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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.
Poem of the week

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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