Cherrypicked stories
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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Friday Sonnet: Silver
No wine these grapes of hurt set free, No coin is bartered for their taste: my lover, My friend, you do no longer look at me… The forging of my fantasies is over:
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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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