Cherrypicked stories
These Make the World Smile
"I bet you can't make me cum," she said. "I bet I can, my tongue is magic," I replied, the taxi driver staring at me in the rear view mirror. "No-one has ever made me before."
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Silence
There was silence. She looked up at me, her eyes huge and trusting, her lips trembling slightly, bitten red with panic. I caught her hands in mine and pressed them to my lips.
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The Sentinel
Alone I stand No friends have I My feet in earth I touch the sky No hands to hold No voice to sound I stand alone On higher ground My watchful eye Always alert No life to lose
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Prime Numbers
The day the world flinched, like sunlight through a coma they carried their dead on advertisement boards. Surgeons waited like ignoble cannibals to strip out their organs or lay them
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Escape Root
Escape Root (22nd January, 2009, 2.25pm) Today is sponsored by overtired SAD and the high squeals of the black-clad birds of prey; I pray on my own time,
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Memsaab
This story was an entry in the New Writing Season Competition at ABC Tales
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Christmas Cock-Up
It was a Christmas time Saturday night
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I Guess Everyone Has Hang Ups
“Hi, this is Lina. I’m not able to come to the phone right now. Leave your number and I’ll call you back as soon as possible.” Beep.
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Spontaneous house combustion (SHC)
“Why are you being so stupid? Why are you being so stupid?”
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My Dad the Pussy
I see the spanner just before it connects with my dad’s head, feel the jolt of it through his arms as he tries to lift me off the floor.
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Spider
Such a scary insect. Pandemonium, the way it scurries. Is it going to weave a web or scramble all over you? Don’t move an eye lash. Eat your breath.
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Cathy of Cathays
Cardiff Nite Out ripped up by unshakeable truth
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December Days
Lying beneath the bare-branched willow Gaze up at the grey sky. You heard me Once in a dream; a whisper, in silver But you never heard the rain. Feel the ice tide deep inside
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Tuesday Sonnet: Merits
I love the way you speak of sadness as A gift that none of us deserves, like we Had not done work enough to find its tree And pluck its fruits (these our tradition has
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The Birth of Adam
Now You curl Fussy to furl The womb room cosy You tumble and turn as you trumpet your rosy free life but fear keeps you stapled and strung Then it will be the pushing and flush
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Sweet Charity
She’s only here to shelter from the rain. So am I, if the truth be known.
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Just Being Frank
“Aren’t you gonna wait for a stormy night, put him on a lift an push ‘im up through the ceiling?”
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Night on the Surgical Ward.
I was unlucky enough to be quite seriously ill in the New Year. It wasn't my first time in hospital, but it left an impression on me. I hope to banish it here.
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Instant Message
a poem...that's all
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