Cherrypicked stories
Beyond
Tribute to a my friend who died when we were 14.
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- 852 reads
No surrender
Weakly, I wave a white flag
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- 3784 reads
How sweet the sound that rises...
For this weeks IP
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- 1646 reads
prelude
dancing around the same space...
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- 3697 reads
"Just call me Ruth" - biography of a modern politician
Biography of a friend, a dedicated politician and daughter of refugees. "Just call me Ruth" is an appreciation of a woman to be admired.
THE ARCHIVIST
When a crime is committed, what happens to the evidence that got away, the evidence the perpetrator has succesfully hidden away?
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Glastonbury - There Are No Proper Shops
It would not be misplaced to have the town’s border sign stating: ‘Abandon hope some of ye who enter here’ -
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- 3000 reads
A story left untold.
They all tell me I look like her, just like her they say. She was a stunner in the day, so they tell me. She had the finest hair, the prettiest eyes, and the softest lips.
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- 835 reads
Tables and Chairs
with reference to real events
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- 880 reads
City
This city is a monster; you have to shut your eyes and draw your curtains if you want to survive here. A boy on the cusp of adulthood undergoes a transition walking through central London at night.
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- 2707 reads
Hear No Evil (I.P.)
The workmen couldn't get on her nerves no more.
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- 2719 reads
A Silent World
INSPIRATION POINT 15.01.10
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- 9807 reads
GLASS ANGEL
In the evening glow a stained glass angel gazed down at the naked form of Stanley Bell, who lay spread-eagled and unconscious, on the vestry cot below.
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- 1858 reads
Happy Divorce Day!
Who am I to shake the tree?
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- 3095 reads
Surpass the end
Chip shop fumes reach out like flailing tendrils, Make contact and climb up my nostrils Smells etched onto clothes, the Freshness abated, as I waited for the Cycle to end.
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- 602 reads
What is Poetry?
I don´t bloody know!
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- 2655 reads
The Parcel
This short story was a winner of the Gifted and Talented Youth creative writing competition in 2007, on the theme of The Greatest Gift.
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- 2098 reads
Daisy Chains
This poem came runner up in the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize in 2008 in the Connecting category.
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- 707 reads