Cherrypicked stories

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The Cherry Tree (I.P.)

“How you shiver, Cherry Blossom! Let me warm you with my kisses..."
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Bridge with God

My mother takes gambles with angels. If her Patience is solved, she knows she will be protected and safely climb the high step to her terrace to get some fresh air.
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Missing in marriage

I notice it most when we make love. You are there, fleshy and slippy and breathy and yet you are absent.
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The Last Santa Clause

Hollywood action movie style, post-apocalyptic, Christmas Zombie story.
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Born In The Ghetto

Under the dark sky, getting high on the dark side, Felt deprived and segregated like the apartheid.
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Who is holding onto your heart

The search for the secret treasure inside each and every one of us.
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The Quadratic Equations Of Summer

Surreptitious And The Obfuscators were, of course, the band of the moment that summer.
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preparing for re-hab

About to cross America in 12 hours on a technological miracle burning blackened dinosaur fossils Good insurance, good research, worries, hopes, pear sake, marijuana, pain-pills to keep me
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Complete me

... edited
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I Write... Therefore I Am

High-schools and universities, friends and classes and reputations, gentle lovers, beautiful lovers, abusive, deceitful lovers, drug highs and drug lows, almost nazi-style jails
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Nodding With Cherries

Marjorie Wallace, thirty-nine-year-old librarian, enjoyed a certain fillip to her weekly walk to the writers’ circle.
Story of the week

No More Heroes

This was originally a straight fantasy story but I couldn't think how to end it so I tried to sex it up.
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After You

I'm spinning back round, banging my fists on the door. I want to go back. I WANT TO GO BACK! There are sirens in my head, screaming: "Relapse... RELAPSE!"
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IP Creotine

We'll have nun of that!
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Productivity and Cost Management (Part 3 of 3)

An alternate and cost effective Long Term Employment Scheme. 8000 words. In 3 Parts. Last edit stages. I need anyone who reads it to copy past any mistakes they see into the comments. Thx
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Productivity and Cost Management (Part 2 of 3)

An alternate and cost effective Long Term Employment Scheme. 8000 words. In 3 Parts. Last edit stages. I need anyone who reads it to copy past any mistakes they see into the comments. Thx
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Take the Next Road on your Left (8)

She didn’t look like Val, but had that same smile, somewhere between doting and condescending. How long had it been since that final farewell?
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Paper Dreams

(Edit) Put the paper napkins in a drawer, now summer is done.
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Legal Procedures

Married six times, Phoebe’s Aunt Janet is advising her niece on affairs of the heart. Good Luck Phoebe!

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