Cherrypicked stories

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Tom - Part 2

Second part of the piece posted earlier in the week. 1,200 words.
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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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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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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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Tom

Another 'chapter' from something longer, to go with 'Josie'.
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Rendezvous

200 words.
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Home is....

A recent diary entry.
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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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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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Don’t Jump I’ll Miss Celebrity Squares - New Version

Don’t Jump I’ll Miss Celebrity Squares - New Version
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the Name of Love Ch 1

Midnight hour. The piercing shrill of screaming police cars rushed around the corner.
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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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Secret Gardens

lalalaa
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Josie - Part 2

Continuation of the piece I posted earlier in the week. 3,500 words.

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