Cherrypicked stories
Tom - Part 2
Second part of the piece posted earlier in the week. 1,200 words.
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- 874 reads
Mrs F***
By day, she is a paragon Of temperance and propriety She sits, and knits, and sups oolong With pillars of society Reflecting solemnly upon Their lives of strict sobriety
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- 2788 reads
Phil
Lofty above the Flappit the first lesson in how to mourn to ultimate effect 10 Bensons - no more or less and Phil Collins' against all odds played as if it came on randomly and wasn't
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- 660 reads
Without Oberon
Without Oberon Without Oberon I'm caked in rain,the lacewing lash of it , a sticky caul I'm all earthbound slow and limping downed just Moth Without Oberon
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- 1255 reads
Tom
Another 'chapter' from something longer, to go with 'Josie'.
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- 855 reads
Sally's Wedding (Inspiration point(s)
I've known her all my life, we grew up together; went to the same school, still live next door to each other in the same road, in the same part of the most expensive area in the county.
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- 879 reads
Disco
I stole you from him, at the college disco, under a neon moon. It was the crime of the century, come Monday morning. The bee's knees of Basildon, the peroxide princess. Taken by the Ra Ra.
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- 1051 reads
Don’t Jump I’ll Miss Celebrity Squares - New Version
Don’t Jump I’ll Miss Celebrity Squares - New Version
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- 570 reads
Don't Jump I'll Miss Celebrity Squares.
A time before the books in brown paper bags and the relentless search on the internet for 'sluts' who were only a bus ride away.
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- 1069 reads
The Warmest Room
In the certain palace a peasant kneels and explains that the regent’s callous tithing is putting undue strain on local artists.
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- 859 reads
Conservatory
I've worked a long time on this story - perhaps too long. I'm still not sure it's right. But it's the best I can do with it. 3,700 words (maybe that's it... it's too long!)
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- 734 reads
Old as Brass
Old lady hunched in the pew curled on herself like a French Horn, arthritic hip all that keeps Trombone husband from sliding proud about town with her, arm in arm.
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- 1260 reads
Bite the bullet
“If you’re not size 8 or under they don’t have it. Who do they think I am Kate Moss?” I wrote this in a couple of hours. I was just trying to churn out a short story on a quiet afternoon .
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- 1736 reads
Teller
Teller ‘You will lead a very lonely life’ she said closing my fingers into a fist. I thought of the fish fingers in the freezer all gold and glittering. ‘No really don’t worry,
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- 970 reads
In the Name of Love Ch 1
Midnight hour. The piercing shrill of screaming police cars rushed around the corner.
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- 501 reads
Hole in my Soul
Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the natural or spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or the fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined in humans at a gestation of p
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- 418 reads
Josie - Part 2
Continuation of the piece I posted earlier in the week. 3,500 words.
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- 623 reads