Cherrypicked stories
Aurora
Tina must be rescued soon, for she has 'Special Needs'
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The old man and the magic bird.
An lonely old man's only friend is a beautiful wild bird, until one day when...
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The Last Lesson
The Last Lesson (4th June 2008, 9.23am) The answers you do not wish to find rest, uneasy, in my eyes, blurred through glass and circumstance as you refuse to look at me;
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Where I'm Calling From
(All writers steal. Thanks to Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres who wrote similar pieces to the one below. They also stole it from someone else.)
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- 1292 reads
Paperweight mother
Our obsession with self and its victims.
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Liar Liar
Liar Liar (3rd June 2008, 10.14pm) If you speak to me, I will watch your lips moving and enjoy the shape they make as you lift and curve your lies disguised as words of apology;
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- 2752 reads
Bone
I'd like to tie a piece of string around my parakeet's foot and carry him along with me, like a balloon, but he can't bear it.
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- 1024 reads
Jamie
He always tried too hard to play a part, needing other people to give him a stage. We were the theatre, but he was the lead actor.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 14 Are You Lonesome Tonight?
On the stairs I pass loads of people I know but can't remember where from or what their names are. They must remember me 'cos they all let on.
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- 554 reads
Good China for Ash
I step out in front of the car. Explode like Beaujolais over the pavement. Reoccuring. Beautiful. Silence, as my blood forms rivulets, running towards the toes of my mesmerized audience.
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- 653 reads
From his bed in the capital city
the old lady who was in the local newspaper after biting the arm of her mugger.
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From his bed in the capital city
Borrowed title from David Berman king of poems. From his bed in the capital city we are driving home to Norwich. The windscreen wipers metronome march
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- 1210 reads
Thearpy
Therapy Let me introduce you to John.
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- 968 reads
Santa's Cookies
The doll seemed to mirror Molly’s features, the same long brown hair and rosy cheeks. Without thought, Harry’s fingers began to stroke the doll’s legs slowly, as he had done so to Molly earlier.
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Xenophobia, you took it upon yourself to kill me.
...Body growing with muscle as it assimilated more ignorance, hate, propaganda, lies, laziness, unemployment...
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- 711 reads
Picturing myself in the mountains, 10,000 miles away
I share a feather duvet with the headmistress of the local primary school
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- 1220 reads
One for the Money...
Autumn Tomson walked down the sidewalk, staggering like a drunkard.
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Hymn to Boredom
Response to Inspiration Point. Oh sweet indolence, Mistress of the sterile mind.......
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speechless, but telling a story
I chose not to speak until I was three. It points to a personality trait of taciturnity that continues to prevail.
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- 1077 reads
Seabird
For the ABC writers and critics, those who take the time to leave comments.
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- 2558 reads