Cherrypicked stories

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walking home (after Reading Ivoryfishbone's Week on Fire)

Once, I had all day to read the papers became an expert at crossword solving now I know cross words solve nothing I try to learn patience of maturity by remembering what it is to be a child
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You have just become a character in my poem

“You have just become a character in my poem” I think as the conductor hole punches an ‘okay’ into my ticket
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Hymn to a Broken Marriage

“If we have children I will be an inattentive father."
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Always Read the Label Chapter 4 A Life on the Ocean Waves

Johnnie. You haven’t met him yet but it’s about time you did. I know it’s about time I did, it’s been a long week, and he’s the man to make it longer.
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Remains

4567 word short story.
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Quote, Unquote

Inspiration point 28.3.2008
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The Old Port, Limassol

Where your defence spending goes...
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A TROPICAL CHILDHOOD.

The joys and perils of growing up in post colonial Africa.
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TIDBITS poem

Ridge over yonder hopes to be part of an eagle's soar.
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Gibbous House 4

Luncheon in the Chaste Maid
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The Hamster Diaries 1

The decision to purchase hamsters went something like this: In the pub on Friday night, already drunk. Me: I want a hamster. I'm going to buy a hamster. Everyone Else: Brilliant.
Story of the week

Learning the Names

School is not the sort of place you can just walk in. First, you must know you have a name. Then you must know what that name is. But even that isn’t enough.
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Cancer

Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs, Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. W.H. Auden
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Door in a Field

poem
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Gibbous House

This is something I've been messing about with for a while. It's a bit different for me. Feel free to say how bad you think it is...
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Crackling

He liked to crunch The hairy bit The chewy fat A habit That made her gag. For her, it was indicative Of a lasciviousness The grease would speckle His lips and remind her
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A Live One

It's a lust story. It wants you to read it.
Story of the week

Novella

A successful actor is drawn back to his home country and to a secret that haunts him. First part of the novella.
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Norm and Tanya

poem, for Tanya and Norm

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