Cherrypicked stories
The Morning After
A night on the tiles.
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- 1502 reads
Seven paternity claimants
When Jim Morrison died, at twenty-seven, there were twenty paternity inquests filed.
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- 827 reads
My boyfriend lives in a great big glass bubble
My boyfriend lives in a great big glass bubble And sometimes he lets me in
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- 1567 reads
The Crazy Gweilo of Tai Po
...based on a true story...
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- 1767 reads
THE OLD FAMILY FARM - poem
As children we swam in the creek.
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- 6322 reads
Viral - The Recovery
Getting better
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- 836 reads
On the Waterfront
Early morning on the Clyde.
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- 1323 reads
Generation plastic pearl
Generation plastic pearl I kicked over a hedgehog bringing you lamb, gardenias, pears. You wiped up my tears with kitchen cloth and sat me down on the stairs.
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- 762 reads
Such a biro way of being in a briefcase.
The courts are actually not very fair on matters missing out letters pulling the plug hole and then the bum skin sticks in and the whole thing about newsprint
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- 859 reads
The Guinea Thief - Chapter 3 - Island Exile
A new life on an island
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- 820 reads
Motel meeting.
A chance meeting at a motel causes momentary concern.
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Is something good about to happen?
The pier on Friday night. Everything just as usual. I walked over to the bench with my head down and offered Dean Murphy one of Mum’s Marlboros if he’d move up.
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A Haunting in Shoreham
This story is supposedly based on true events as related to me by a resident of Shoreham, Long Island, New York. You be the judge, dear reader.
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- 1606 reads
The Story Snatcher
Other writers seemed to have tried a piece limited to 200 words, so I thought I'd give it a go too...
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- 1110 reads
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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I'll Tell You Some Things About Death
2268 words.
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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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- 697 reads
Tell Me On a Sunday
Notes passed can lead to trouble
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- 585 reads