Cherrypicked stories

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The Protector

ever wonder what the noises in your closet in the middle of the night were?
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Yahtzee

The two of them, although they didn’t know it at the time, were heading for the end of the line. “Why didn’t we see Gerald’s garage?” asked Dave Dee.
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Between the Lines

(Edit 24/09/09 with a thanks to Nathan) ...that duck-shaped damp patch on the wall by our bed has come back ...
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Fishing For Catfish In The City's Drain.

In such a modern society, Its always a pleasure to enjoy both nature and the city; literally, Fishing For Catfish In The City's Drain.
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Last Day at Lehman's

a bagatelle...a fancy... nothing really much
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Monday Sonnet: TS

A different kind of failure, Eliot said Of poetry – and won the Nobel prize. He preached humility, so no surprise. Hence, from under the shadow of his red
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Snails on the Floor of Heaven

Snails on the Floor of Heaven (22nd September 2008, 2.41pm) We stood under the almond trees, waving long canes like medieval jousters, bashing at the branches until they surrendered
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Steve from Research

He was on the train when he first felt it. Like a softening that lowered him further into the seat on the long, sapping journey. It wasn't a worry at first.
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Dear under-neighbours, I live on the top floor

When you are asleep I am above you, awake, wishing this whole waffle-stack block would just vanish and leave us, for a moment, hung above each other, at intervals, unbedded,
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Copper reflects sunlight in a way people don't yet understand

He was a philanderer and a sycophant and I was too young to really know what either of those words meant.
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After the Ball

Life's no fairy-tale and I'm no Cinderella.
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The Philosopher's Wife

A painter, a philosopher and his wife.
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Mr Malaprop in Love

oh well, a go at IPOW...
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The Fortune Teller

In the playground We gathered around the fortune teller With his flapping paper mouth, Pinched between anxious fingers.
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How High is the Moon

(edited, 22/09/08 with a thank you to jennifer, sunshine and Mori;-) Like schoolgirls we giggle, mad she calls me.
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It's Amazing Who Knows You When You're Down and Out

The other day (in a typical American city caught in a typical daydream) I got into a taxi-cab and started to tell the aging driver a humorous tale about a hobo I'd helped with a few dollars
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The Life History of Guillermo Brown (Edit)

My Open Uni CW course has started; this is the first activity in the book, you get first para (that you change) choose from five titles then add some paras of your own...
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Poet

The whole thing is in your hands.
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Another Man's Treasure

A square peg in this dump-it-get-a-new-one age.

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