Cherrypicked stories
Are you my punishment?
Are you my punishment? Nice to meet you I don't mind the pain in my arms But I'm trying to cut down So would you mind just tearing at my heartstrings instead?
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Stealing
A nostalgic snippet from my misspent youth
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- 1263 reads
Mr Gregory meets a lobster
What goes on in the mind of the strange men who appear to like young girls too much. Perhaps not what you would imagine.
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Intercambio
An entry for a competition in local English freesheet. The competition was to celebrate the paper's 25th anniversary. 200 words, including, somewhere, the number 25 was the remit. No, it didn't.
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- 2345 reads
Autumn
And the air is a frozen kiss Silence. Frost tainted by Smoke-curls from chimney pots Lining the sky like a fortress Against the chill. We wrap in blankets, slip love between us,
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Life’s little elephants
Plinth is riding astride a miniature elephant, not one of ours, a visiting mini elephant. Shannon is elsewhere, garden gnome shopping with John, who’s an expert on these things.
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She paints me naked
an artist’s eye misses nothing, and I can only hold my stomach in so long.
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Tonight Josephine...
Current I.P. In retrospect, posing nude, not that much of a deal.
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Headline: Storeroom
Both stuck, both thinking....
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Death Ship - SDD Five, Part Two
S.D.D. Raven races toward its first encounter with Takelvee warships. It would be four against one but Raven had to hold the line until help arrived.
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- 948 reads
Glastonbury UFO's
Glastonbury made the news recently with the release of MOD UFO files and reported sightings at the festival. Personally I’ve witnessed three ‘UFO’s’ (so far).
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Is This Yours? (Four)
“Watching a bog-standard horse race without having a punt is boring.
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- 1261 reads
The Literary Agent
For all of you out there who have ever tried to excite the interest of a literary agent.
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- 3738 reads
The Navy Diary - 1st Edit
The Royal Navy: drugs, guns and drink.
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Derryn
Insanity comes in all forms, but when it comes in the form of Derryn, noone is safe!
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I am the Paper
I have a pen but no paper, So I write on my skin, The private whisper urging me, “Get it down now, this time this place”. In this single room, this bed, So careless to have no paper,
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The First Tell-Tale Signs of Madness in The Bathroom of Discontent
The story of peasant mother, who has little understanding of the ways of the world, tries to come to terms with the social and moral decay around her.
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- 576 reads
No Small Wonder
A middle aged gentleman becomes dillusioned with his IT job and decides to go and see a doctor.
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Death Ship - SDD Five, Part One
The alien ship Workforce was of interest to humanity, but it was a deadly threat to the Takelvee. Now it is gone. The Takelvee will stop at nothing to find it; including galatic war.
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a redhead
this is my first story. i have recounted a snippet from last week, an experiance of desire that intrigued and shocked me slightly. enjoy.
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- 3842 reads