Cherrypicked stories
The Academy's Final Reckoning
Some people's lives are like a movie.
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It's the little things
A word or a sentence a phrase or a saying, a sideways look a glance, a soft touch. It's the little things that get me, so that i can't breath even with all the love i receive.
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Cloud Atlas - a review.
Written some time ago but Ewan brought it up so...
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The Wind is a Peanut
I want to make the wind wobble
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when you rush out.
When you leave someone behind to think about why you've left them.
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Two Tabs of Codeine and a bowl of Rogan Josh
I’m sitting in an Indian restaurant and there is a woman looking in at me from outside.
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Biter Bit (Gregg)
Could only get a 1500 or so worder out of him. Sorry.
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Too late to talk to Benny2
pub chat
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Someone Once Told Me I Was Like A Munchie
An almost-lunchtime bit of tasty nonsense.
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The Box
I was never allowed to look in it. It was always locked; Though she would fiddle with its catches And rusty leather suitcase hinges. One day when she was out,
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Fear of Falling
The fallen; easily forgotten.
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Wednesday Sonnet: The Actor to the Audience
When I still had the sunlight in my hair I thought the gods of theatre had misspelt My stage directions; was I Caesar’s heir? I did not feel the quiet others felt
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What girls should do
200 words.
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An Old LP
A few months ago I picked up a record to play, Nana Mouskouri Sings White Rose of Athens in German, and remembered how I had bought it exactly 40 years earlier, on holiday ...
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The Betrayal
The Betrayal
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The Sunken City
Ben lay recumbent, strewn across the balcony, the searing heat of the mid morning sun rousing him.
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mornings.
One of those mornings.
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Farewell to my Muse ...
I am now empty I am … Yin without Yang Strawberries without cream Love without hate Simon without Garfunkle For … Late last night I caught my Muse packing his bags I pleaded
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Pops
We buried Pops in his Sunday Best On that wet November morn I stood there in MY Sunday Best Shattered Tattered Torn “Private Viewing” an hour before
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City of Secrets Chapter 4
The next chapter of City of Secrets. The plot thickens and my need for comments grows.
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