Cherrypicked stories
End of days 2
I always hate the hour before a battle.
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The Coming of Age December Part 2.
Carol singing.
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Maladaptive Coping Behaviour
I slip away from everyone at the B&B and sneak down the beach road, bare-foot with sandals in hand, to the sand dunes for a sly cigarette.
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Blocked
The writer who can't write. The friend who can't stay awake during her mental breakdown. The laptop that is about to be destroyed. It's not an easy night for anyone.
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Reunion
It's been ten years or more since we sat daily in the rebellious coffee shop, the three of us, school boys and laughing, full of caffeine and dreams to burst a world
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1926 in Brazilian Football
Thursday This is not going to be a story about football. This is a story about frogs.
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The River that Drowned (I.P.)
(Edit 15/6/2010) ...inspired by China's "Three Gorges Dam Project" http://www.flickr.com/photos/wicks/3488452739/
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Harley4
they might actually get to Harley Street.
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Afternoon love song
Leave your politics, leave your pen, Leave your income tax return, Leave your ink and fax and turn - We're off to the hollows and hills. Hollows and hills, hollows and hills.
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The Guinea Thief - Chapter 14 Trial and Tribulation (Part One)
I have jumped a bit forward here, apologies for those who might be following the story. The gaps will be filled in soon.
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Walking in wild wheat
under blue skies you walk barefoot through whistling wheat gold moments to wandering feet carressing quench of long stemmed pale green grasses grown from small seeds to tall towers
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Crazy Horse's Last Stand 1976
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Jumper
...living up there all the time, I can understand his unnatural urge to want to fly ...
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Days of Fish
Beach Cat crawled out from his rocky hollow to have a look around, out into the mist, into the sand, felt the moist grit under his paws, the salt air in his lungs, padded out towards the sea, barely m
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A Man of Discretion
If a man is in need of a drink or two, it is not good form to appeal to a friend while carrying one in his hand.
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Whispersin
Whispersin (11th June, 2010) This is the voice that you cannot hear if you’re listening to God, isn’t that right, My dear? These are the thoughts that good girls don’t have,
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What Lies Beyond
Distance grows like the space between times When we learnt how to hold onto those moments That can so easily slip by, and be lost forever. Silence grows around us and fills those spaces
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Strawberry Girl and the Beast
Every morning I go to the café and sit in the luxurious sofa chairs outside near the busy street, under small black pipes that blow a fine mist of Saigon tap water, gently into my coffee.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 18
In October, she decided that we deserved a break and bought tickets for Florence and Venice.
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End of days 1
A final battle looms to end all others (possibly for real this time).
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