Cherrypicked stories
Nameless Part One
The sky was grey, the light dim and faded; all around them the empty air seemed to whisper, "Remember me." They held hands and gazed upwards; when together they could forget everything, erase all trac
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Saturday Morning
Are you awake? I walk into a supermarket on Hoe Street so I can hear him. It’s one I haven’t been into yet. I pretend to look interested in the cereals. Yes, since eight.
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Little Things From The Day
In aisle seven a woman is making a scene. The woman is shrieking. Heads are turning and people are starting to stare from the corner of their beady eyes.
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What You've Done Since
tidying up
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Art of Cooking
Wetstone ground, rasped in smooth small circles; You taught us how to hone a sliver of hate to a glint, Slip point 'twixt gristle and bone as hens' bane;
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Going For a Song ...
This week's IP (30 words)
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PLEASE DON'T
Please do not speak to me again, Talking to me should not be done. The moment I see your lips part, I want to slip things on your tongue.
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Punctuation Moron
Should that be a full stop Or a Colon that’s halved
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If only I’d known. ( or ‘Why I had to cultivate my love of German cabaret.’)
ancient IP, which has been gently but persistantly nagging - so i thought i'd better just do it :)
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Sestina for my far too beautiful self
I look far too beautiful to travel on buses. This is what people say when I am travelling on buses looking far too beautiful.
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This Ain't The Verse
Apologies to Philip Larkin... and to NO_1
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The Equinox Parade
IP: Spring Each mauve petal folds into a balloon, straining its stem-string, wishing to rise into burning blue circles of sky; kites, birds - love songs.
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When Did I Lose It?
Reclamation of a lost hope
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Things My Daughter Taught Me
Taught me ... I wouldn't be remembered for how clean my floor was. (edit)
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The Interview
Behind the walls of democracy there are many clouded visions of right and wrong .
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Re Gan Mian
CLACK – CLACK – CLACK – CLACK
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If Only
"If only. Futile words in any language. If only I had asked. If only I had wanted to know." OU work: don't worry if you can't work it out, it's the writer's fault.
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Jade; R.I.P.
Thick B.... or Saviour?
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Loving the Potter
pottering, edited,
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