Cherrypicked stories
The Owlers Wife
The Owlers Wife My Jemmys out tonight down Tenterden way a visiting his Father took sick at least I'm to say it or a drinking in Horsmonden telling tales
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Pilgrims 6 : Mrs Baño
She had a gap in her teeth, kinda sexy....
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Pumpkin
Pumpkin He said the stoutness was the effect of too many tangerines slapped her peel thighs and instructed ‘Pumpkin, make sure there are no pips in my breakfast
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Beak
Beak And then she tells you that the coldest place is a heart. Not one of those ice hotels or expeditions where men bury pick axes in scapula but the chamber place with its ego
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My Friend the Visionary
I love Lee because she will look and look at things until she can see everything that’s there.
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Grand Slam
Love and betrayal over a gentle game of bridge.
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Two For The Road
Benzedrine and beltways, a Mexican lolita and two twenty somethings bent on escape from the everyday.
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The rise and fall of Twilight shift controller
Local ambition
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Come back later
Ever thought of something clever to say 10 seconds too late?
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Inquisition
Inquisition There is often a wish to throw women to the Inquisition curves are blamed for an inconvenient itch an uncomfortable envious swelling of a myth
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning--Chapter Four: Big Little Man
When Martyn was a child of eight or nine he used to have a recurring dream where he'd be sitting in his primary school classroom dressed in nothing but a pair of baggy grey Y-fronts.
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Why did you speak in that stupid voice?
I heard you: You were all grey And buttoned Ready for business And those consonants Clagged in your mouth Like seeded fruits. Who are you to speak Of board meetings And colloquia?
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Chapter Two: The Dark Horse
“Maman?” Margarita called; their mother had stopped screaming. “Maman!”
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Harboil: Part V
The thing is: plans describe events that will not happen.
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Wrecking Ball
watching blocks of flats around us collapse
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Leading the board
Few places could steal your dignity like an office. Its set hours. Clean desk policies. Endless meetings. Health and safety.
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Chapter One: 1722
“Seabirds don’t have black flags,” Margarita replied matter-of-factly.
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Penzance
The narrator is in Exeter Bus station waiting for 2 road buddies to return... Penzance Penance Pen, can, pan, nape, cape, pane, cane. An A. Words I can get out of Penzance.
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Last Place in the Labour Party Treasure Hunt
During my time in the Labour Party, in the 1990s, there were plenty of people opposed to its rebranding. But there were also plenty of new people joining all the time.
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