Cherrypicked stories

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The Leaving

Caught up in a whirlwind of buying duvets and curtains, mugs, plates and bowls, electric kettles and toasters.
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Oh Do Shut Up !

An attempt at the Inspiration point. I'm not sure if I have it right. I hope someone may feel like telling me. Edited 11/11/08
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It rains, anyway

We’d spent the morning conjuring sun
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Untitled

A growing din
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The Light of the Sun

The light of the sun doesn't know what it's doing, at least that's what Alberto says, but if it did stop to think every once in a while, and turned its thoughts over to questions
Story of the week

Shana

Written for a flash challenge, the prompt word was singular. when it won I was delighted. I have only recently begun to write prose. I would really like some feedback on this please.
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Eyes

Finally got round to writing a second draft for this one, have left my first attempt up so feel free to compare and contrast and let me know what you think...
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A Garden To Die For

What a pleasant way to go...
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Mexico 1970

There were rumours, of decimalisation. A new decade in modernism, at Manor House Junior school. It was the summer of 1970. Of Esso World Cup coins. Fools gold for heroes.
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Between the Lines

Communication's never easy.
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The Affinity III

If you missed parts 1 or 2 of The Affinity, here are the links: http://www.abctales.com/story/ian-hobson/affinity http://www.abctales.com/story/ian-hobson/affinity-ii
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Delia's How to Cook. Book 1

In the bookshop. In Basildon. We bonded. You with your cookbooks. Me behind the till. You asked me around. For tea. Pie and cream. I accepted. There and then.
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Half Term in Funky Town

IPOW The Costas are at their worst during the school holidays... the British school holidays. That doesn't explain the 20/30 somethings though. With absolutely no apologies to Longfellow.
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Lipstick On Your Collar

Late again. I pick holes in your story like a moth. I know you were with her. Your fingers recoil guiltily to your pockets.
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To My Love

When stars forget to light the midnight sky, and restless tides no more their motions ply; when Earth upon its axis fails to turn, and setting suns the skies no longer burn;
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Tycho's Nose (EDIT)

The capriciousness of fame... Danmark is Danish for Denmark. Tycho Brahe was a Danish polymath and astronomer of the 16th century, now chiefly famous for having a prosthetic nose.
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Whyabother?

IPOW
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'I Don't Know What Goes on in your Head, Sometimes.'

No song titles in this one either... Yes, it was spelt incorrectly in the comic.
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Pablo Neruda

...together with the Medusa, figurehead of a whaling ship baring her breasts in a long lasting message...
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On the Bridge

Brilliant gods under these red girders across the bay towards Alcatraz The sky is a window to the voice they hear when poised on the ledge

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