Cherrypicked stories
Intimacy versus Intricacy
An acrostic poem.
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Pub Banter! (East End Style)
“Where was you, when manners was handed out?” “Round the corner, having a fag. Where was you?” “Round the other one, shagging your Mum; there was a queue!”
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Teachologue
An insight....!!! Tearing hair out? Me? Never!
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The Story of the First Eclipse and How the Stars Were Born
A very long time ago before there were people on the earth, the Gods were sitting in their palace on high, and out of their boredom they created the Sun and the Moon to fill up the empty sky.
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Bright like Quartz
The white points of her knuckles are bright like quartz sticking out of heather where she’s holding on so hard and I think about her little skeleton underneath that rosy flesh.
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Peter Pan Poems
They are Peter Pan poems; they refuse to grow up!
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dddk 4 - plums and bums
The rise and fall of Dame Nellie...
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Your Country Needs You
The Great (or not so great) War
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Morpheus (Roman god of sleep and dreams )
Incubus (a male demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women)
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Etching The Surface
04.
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Keeping up Appearances
Inspiration Point...spider and a red dress....
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Greenwood Tree : Prologue
Pagan gods don’t walk away just because you stop looking at them. The Gronny Patch sleeps; perhaps it dreams. Let it . .
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A Cup of Tea
You were forewarned and when you are lost Remember the tragedy I promised.
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3 boys
Three boys tired to sell me a Christmas tree for one pound, As I walked along black ground in January dusk.
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The Return
The opening of something longer, meaner and perhaps a little scarier. Aimed at a young-adult audience. How do people feel about the tone?
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Redress
This week's IPOW... The writer's revenge: writing about old hurts.
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Whose Ark?
Inspired by a Postsecret card.
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The French Dresser.
The beautiful antique dressing table seemed like a bargain. But its true cost would not be paid in money. It came with a very unpleasant history. And a long memory.
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BESIDE DORCHESTER, NB poem
It is a terrible experience to visit your son in prison. To see him locked behind barbed wire, with guards monitoring every movement. We still love him.
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