Cherrypicked stories
High Adventure
Oh Mr Kipling, what can I do? I wanted to go to Samarkand on account of you. Oh Mr Henty, isn´t it a shame I ended up in Kandahar with no one else to blame.
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- 999 reads
Leather Frames and Memories
A story...please comment/advise, thanks! ;)
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- 5645 reads
Blossoming
A very personal poem for me. 'At fifteen I stood alone in my bedroom. Locked the door.'
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- 12086 reads
Captive
He awakens hot, hungry and drenched in perspiration and urine Unable to get up he reaches out a timid hand only to be met by the cold, lifeless bars of his prison cell
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- 2356 reads
The Ingenuous Don
no, I'm not explaining it...
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- 1081 reads
Life Line
'I creep across the path of life.'
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- 3675 reads
The Letters
This one will date me.
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- 5312 reads
Something to Say
I warm my bare feet on the dash board, sitting in the boyish manner that makes you laugh, as we drive up Avondale Road.
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- 6284 reads
The Vermeer
An art lover inexplicably overwhelmed.
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Hot Swine Calls
The national Swine Flu Emergency Pandemic Death, Doom, Gloom and Recovery Hot Line.
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- 2793 reads
Rolling back by 42 years
He was standing near the policed barrier that was zero point for reaching Ram Janam Bhoomi Garbh Sthal.
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- 703 reads
Mrs Malaprop's Old Bones
Inspiration point.
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- 3763 reads
Chapter Ten: Bad News More Terrible Than You Can Ever Imagine
Kate waits for Medium Brown to call. Then George calls and she gets some truly terrible news.
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- 1907 reads
Love Shall Have Its Way
Forbidden Love?
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- 3770 reads
“Science Facts: Vanilla from Madagascar”
The Conquistadors tore a hole into paradise and saw paradise and touched paradise and tasted paradise and, commanded by God, meant to take it all back to their gray castles. The
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- 875 reads
Windows of Madness (Part 11)
Only a few more pieces left in the jigsaw puzzle, a bad accident on the ward and back to the future for Llewelyn.
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- 1264 reads
SF. Pt.17c. Virgin Gorda.
More hanky-panky in the Caribbean.
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- 5756 reads
A Long Time Gone!
Human foibles and fancies; no match for natures’ patience…
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- 7091 reads
Early memories
She was so beautiful. I sat there taking in every detail of her features. The small rounded nose, the full ruby lips and those vivid blue eyes accentuated by her golden ringlets.
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- 3774 reads