Cherrypicked stories
Colors of Love
Red is the color I turned when Mark Adams first kissed me on the cheek. I said I most certainly did not like him, and he said he could prove I was lying. He knew a special test.
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Cindy's Fall
"You don't have to be scared, Daddy... Everything is..."
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Patrick's Big Toe Itched Like Crazy
Having stripped his genitals bare, Patrick lay down, raised his hips, and peeled himself like a banana. His chest hair caused a minor problem, as did the insides of his ears...
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No Going Back
Bitter Memories
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Google Worship (inspiration point)
Google Worship (12th January, 2009, 9.52am) There Is No God Greater Than The Great God Google... Every day I pray that You will show me the way
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That toddler in Tesco
You are that toddler in Tesco dragging its feet out the front of the pram,tripping up blind old women,that piece of popcorn that looked like someone I can’t quite figure out who irritating.
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Chicken Soup 11_01_09
This is a soup to herald Winter turning to Spring. White sky, orange sun, deep Winter green of the snowdrop shoots. Hope. Not long now. Not long.
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Please take his seat
He thinks, all accusing, at the profile in the next seat, the luggage rack rattling defensive snake. He thinks, yes sweetheart under your ass is a ring of conceits.
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By me
We pack a bag get on a train and eat the sandwich. The flick book style countryside suits all the kissing. We get off in Oxford and in a café with a balustrade make a list,
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The Ill-Made Knight
apologies to T.H.White
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The Islanders
The islanders we met were digital natives; bronzed and nubile, their ankles garlanded with flash drives fashioned from conch-shells.
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The Square on the Hypotenuse
He stares, blindly, through the window. “Good morning, Mr. Reeves,” say the children ...
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Childhood friends
You say stuffed bear I say not He remembers things You have all forgot He was there when I was born And I'll keep him 'till I die Every night I begin to dream He'll be resting by my side
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Other People's Children
Oh yes, a little Miss Witch rant!
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The leg braces
She did it again. Carly tried to get away, she ran, she cried – no, Mom, no! – but it was useless.
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Blue Is Beautiful
"Life is full of disappointment yes, and I am full of life." - John Gorka, folk songwriter In moments of pathetic insanity, I turn on the U.S. TV
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London 1960
“We ask God to forgive us the sins we will commit in the future”. Every week we ask this, and then we come here next week and ask him to forgive last weeks’. This sinning is complicated.
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Coming of age
Out here where the effort of it reduces me to shaking, I am overall grey.
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The Strip is hip
short term resident struggles to find identity in dust bowl desert and eyes up that lucky 7
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