Cherrypicked stories

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The Last Rites of Horace Tees

A nod to M R James, Dickens and Aeschylus. Vengeance as a pincer movement, before and beyond the grave.
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A sense of literary death

A sense of literary death I was with her the last time... She was my better half...
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A Christmas Carol (My adaptation)

He was a tall man, powerfully built and yet not overweight although this was hard to tell under the thick winter coat he had pulled tightly around him.
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Tell Me On a Sunday

Notes passed can lead to trouble
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Emblematic trousers

So wear your emblematic trousers Take the high ground Do I care ? Bisect my Abba mantras Lease the tortoise Life aint fair If it were, I'd have a Stealth switch To enlighten you to me
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ROMA, ITALIA

EASTER SUNDAY,April 12-Florence,Italy
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I Can't Feel The Guns

Shooting that occurred on boxing day 2007 next to my block on the Aylesbury Estate. The body lay unnoticed for more than 24 hours. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7164679.stm
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Five Kisses

I was going to enter this for the Nostalgia Comp, but I just couldn't get it how I wanted it in time for the deadline.
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Someone Should Stop Me Falling In Love With The Fastfoto Assistant

Someone ought to stop me falling in love with the assistant in the Fastfoto shop because I know the Fastfoto assistant is not my type or rather, shouldn't be any more.
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Are you Lonesome tonight? Please read.

This is not a poem, nor is it a story, but it’s a heartfelt message to anyone else out there who is on their own tonight.
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Party Wolf

little pig party
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Kitchen

I'm sorry that I broke Your favourite oven dish Especially in light Of the anecdote you had just recounted About the salmon dinner. I am also sorry For the Chinese bowl Now splintered stuck
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The Other Poet

What the Other Poet did.
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In the Mouths of Children

A young child waits to meet his newborn brother for the first time, and has something very important to ask him...rough draft so any comments/feedback on this one much appreciated!
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PART 2 (a few weeks later):

This is my first attempt at following on from the short story 'the morning after'. It's still very new and fragile and ready for criticism.
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

another experiment in genre: detective fiction...all crit most welcome thanks
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Wing Walkers

A few short lines about a relationship
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Awakening

After aeons of sleep, Adam woke up. For an immeasurable time he had been lying naked on soft grass,

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