Cherrypicked stories
Project Falklands
A war rages between forces of good and evil, a war where only the strongest will survive! Bones will be broken, minds will be destroyed and hearts will be bleed!
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- 756 reads
Impassioned Meant
A jolly good dig-out the soul, wrench, vent. Because I was infused with rage, and it spilled onto the page.
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- 3357 reads
the boy
I met the boy on the burning bridge. He wore trunks and sandals, and sat on the red hot iron rail with his legs swinging slightly over the sides as though he were somewhere else.
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- 821 reads
Some Other Spring
Best thing about this dump is the chestnut tree and the garden. House not up to much. Only what you’d expect of Army Barracks.
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- 2438 reads
The Party
A talking head written in format for TV as a monologue to camera. Yas a middle aged woman with two daughters by her first marriage. Is bored by her second marriage and her safe life
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- 823 reads
Stress co-ordination
‘The ways we work’, she said, ‘the way the world turns.’ And I thought she was an idiot. Because you told everyone that I loved you that it hurt a bit when you left,
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- 799 reads
Singular (Inspiration Point)
Singular (Inspiration Point) (7th November, 2008, 1.15pm) Single. Tick the box, choose a job, choose life… it’s not always a choice, you know! I swear at the page;
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- 2545 reads
Once more with Peeling
Once more with Peeling (7th November 2008, 10.23am) Rinse our hands of this and then repeat;
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- 2161 reads
Tandoori under the Moon
updated edit, Tenerife poem - Tipping the Waiter was a Goa poem -
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- 4050 reads
Sulham Close - ch2
Nanowrimo Updated 28.12.09 and renamed.
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- 1202 reads
Poppies and Polka-dots
Yesterday was her birthday. She looked pretty in her party dress – the satin one with polka-dots. Red always was her colour.
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- 2490 reads
Sulham Close - ch1
Nanowrimo effort chapter 1 Updated 28.12.09 and remamed.
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- 1354 reads
Retribution
This story illustrates a point Ewan made in Six Articles in Search of a character. This character kicked me out of the way and wrote her own story. I had meant it to be a comment on the NHS.
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- 1647 reads
I'm In Love with a Girl Called Ellipsis...
I can't seem to stop using ellipses, everywhere I go it's all ... A friend says it lends my correspondence a certain fragmentary quality, constantly deferred, as if everything is consistently
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- 1233 reads
His Father's Son
Alexander’s never known you and yet he swears he loves you. Vows to follow in your footsteps
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- 3799 reads
Well; Or, Poem For John McCain
Well below the solar plexus Grace rests easier than Pride
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- 1203 reads
Two Cheers
Yes, just two...
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- 1137 reads
Six Articles in Search of a Character
This is one of those things courses tell you to do when looking to flesh out, or find a character. It has never worked for me... WIP
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- 1250 reads
On 26th October 2008 at 2.30am
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Meetings with Remarkable Poets
1. Your face filled the TV screen, speaking about me and you. Those few and unsatisfying get-togethers - fine fare for a poet!
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- 1794 reads