Cherrypicked stories
Watchman
First story in the Babel series. Part of the book of short stories currently being written.
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Ode to Tomorrow [Revised]
Today has a funny taste and it smells queer, too and I keep having to move the aerial and twiddle with the knobs. I think today must have his flies down because yesterday and tomorrow
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Ash Wednesday blog 2008
There is a certain relief to be had when things go up in smoke, and blow away on the breeze.
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Have You Ever
A footnote to eternity.
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What's in a name?
My name is McSporran. I’m Scottish. And if I had a penny for every person who said to me, on introduction, “That’s a very Scottish name, isn’t it?”, I could buy Scotland.
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If it's for me, it's for everyone
Here’s what made me think of death: taking cinder from the stove, balanced on a shovel, shaking the dust over a gravelled car bay, watching it expand from breath to mist: a cape unfurled.
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Meeting Celia
...another genre experiment...as mills and boon as you like...
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Limericks
A strapping young actor named Harris Suffered mortification in Paris When a rip in his clothes Saw his Hamlet exposed As he stabbed an old man in the arras An Eskimo, quite unconceited,
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Sex Butler
Sex Butler Gentlemen, I’ll admit The modern world’s a sordid jip Run by grubby little men who like to gloat Everywhere you turn you’re faced with some gaunt slapper’s gurn
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Clima - his romance
sandstorms come in from Sahara - edit
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Afternoon
The first thing I've written in quite some time, woven from random thoughts on a rather frustrating afternoon at work and composed in under half an hour. An experiment. Comments are appreciated.
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OUR SON - a family challenge
"Do you want to come home from Training School son?" "Yes."
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Slim/Fast
I am full of emptiness all form no substance My talent wasted I am number 13 of 100,000 I am 0.9% of the 90 the invisible now visible a magic act in 3 parts the Greek say
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Hangover
I want to call everyone I've ever loved And tell them: Our time together Gave me joy so searing That now, when Sunday Is muffled and smells Like sweating bacon The thought of you tweaking
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A Poet in Student Halls
Between shapes moving towards the serpent and crystal craving shapes, I'll grow a beard as deep as the river, and stick a poster on my wall. With a tree that can't stop singing
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Oh no it isn't!
What's in a name? IPOW, inspired to such nonsense as this.
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The Girl With Norwich In Her Pocket
This is an experimental villanelle, with the repeated words within the lines, in the same order, rather than at the end of each line and rotated.
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- 801 reads
A Passing Day.
Where do you find the time or inspiration to write?
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There's someone dead in the toilet
I know it's Emma's party and I don't want to spoil it but I think there is somebody dead in the toilet.
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We should call a man
It's not my fault that I'm not able to French Polish the scratched coffee table
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