Cherrypicked stories
Punctuation Moron
Should that be a full stop Or a Colon that’s halved
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If only I’d known. ( or ‘Why I had to cultivate my love of German cabaret.’)
ancient IP, which has been gently but persistantly nagging - so i thought i'd better just do it :)
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- 1393 reads
Sestina for my far too beautiful self
I look far too beautiful to travel on buses. This is what people say when I am travelling on buses looking far too beautiful.
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This Ain't The Verse
Apologies to Philip Larkin... and to NO_1
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- 858 reads
The Equinox Parade
IP: Spring Each mauve petal folds into a balloon, straining its stem-string, wishing to rise into burning blue circles of sky; kites, birds - love songs.
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When Did I Lose It?
Reclamation of a lost hope
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Things My Daughter Taught Me
Taught me ... I wouldn't be remembered for how clean my floor was. (edit)
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The Interview
Behind the walls of democracy there are many clouded visions of right and wrong .
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Re Gan Mian
CLACK – CLACK – CLACK – CLACK
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If Only
"If only. Futile words in any language. If only I had asked. If only I had wanted to know." OU work: don't worry if you can't work it out, it's the writer's fault.
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- 2840 reads
Jade; R.I.P.
Thick B.... or Saviour?
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Loving the Potter
pottering, edited,
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Waiting For A Change
Summer is packing bags with stockpiled memories of lazy beach days;
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Away With The Fairies
On the shingle they rock and they roll in rhythm to the surf’s rise and fall.
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A Cautionary Tale
Belloc it's not...
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Retrace me
No need for lock and key where I go shadow-less. Torn into blue my shade, mangled and frayed, away from do and don’t I disobeyed. No trace of the old house, the winding road, the gate.
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- 595 reads
Cabinet Voltaire
Hmmm... well, it might not be like this, but it feels like it!
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Special Delivery
Work produced for OU CW course... all marked now so posted for further mockery :-)
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- 2825 reads
An Unlikely Hero - Issue 3
As Todd returns to school for the first time since the shooting, he's unaware that fate is quite finished with him. The nanobots swimming inside his body begin to make their next move.
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- 1090 reads
Basic Training
The first day of ‘Basic Training’ was – for all the wrong reasons – a special day.
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- 2143 reads