Cherrypicked stories
Josie - Part 2
Continuation of the piece I posted earlier in the week. 3,500 words.
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- 623 reads
Death by PowerPoint
There must be a factory that makes Conference Speakers
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- 2061 reads
The Red Sloop in the Harbour
The Red Sloop In the Harbour On very grey days if someone asked me unwisely "How are you?" I might tell the truth that my Mother has cancer of the egg basket and it might come to me
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- 1936 reads
Brothers in Arms
Soldiers in silence, in the dark...brothers in arms.
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- 568 reads
together and apart at a train station
space a suited, booted lady plugged into her muscial, solipsistic world clicks her ankles space
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- 652 reads
Packing
Sweetheart, I know it's hackneyed But I am shoving my guts Into a Billabong rucksack In the hope that If I take them on a mini-break They will learn to behave. And, yes, I might be listening
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- 718 reads
Josie
A chapter from a longer piece I'm working on. How long I'm not sure yet. It's the first piece of writing I've managed for months. First draft. 4,000 words.
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- 679 reads
Stains
Butterscotch milk edges the window, I made you dab-dab it all embarassed. Spattered chianti behind my bed, a failed date sparked out by 11. A patina of cum under a poster of Louise Brooks
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- 722 reads
Rage
Rage Rage pours in my eyes and ears unctuous as Hemlock ,thick and oily I'm hapless as Hamlet though fuming for no oedipal cause News swarms like Furies
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- 1895 reads
Adventures In Drilling
Sort of a silly little story that doesn't really go anywhere.
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The Girl I Miss The Most
Some days her hair looked like a beautiful October cabbage. She was frightened of snowmen (especially when they were melting)
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- 2413 reads
We
The ‘We’ Lies After reading Simone Weil you put on a pair of sunglasses and stated emphatically that every sentence beginning with ‘we’ is a lie.
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- 739 reads
Where have all the cherries gone?
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- 1351 reads
The Samaradee
Juliet OC and Jingle had arrived early for a meeting with the King of Shenzhen; he had requested the presence of the five samaradee.
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- 994 reads
M25
And on this TV, after a day spent behind the wheel thinking about fucking anyone but their wives, girlfriends or lovers,
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- 1013 reads
Ghost
When I’m dead I won’t come back Rattle my loose change in the dark Levitate the crockery while you eat Elbow a sulky shadow into your sun Shiver your neck with my cold mouth
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- 1101 reads
Horses
Through early morning market town echoes, I walked past wood squared shop windows, resplendent in their cheese rounds and sunrise sides of ham, down narrow wynds, still tinged
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- 1924 reads
Simplicity
but the teaser might be longer than the poem is, know what I mean?
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- 1746 reads