Cherrypicked stories
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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- 1927 reads
Simplicity
but the teaser might be longer than the poem is, know what I mean?
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- 1754 reads
An Old Man's Photographs
200 words.
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- 4210 reads
Loads of pills and stuff
I get phone calls asking if I’m eating enough
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- 1210 reads
Guest
Guest And so you sit in bed, after click closing the door on the guest room; forgetting you had ever loved him. And the numbness went on in the armpit of your sleep shirt,
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- 1020 reads
Forgotten
“You seen her?” Tim asked, turning to me. I looked over at the bungalow, thinking. “Not since before the flood.” I finally said.
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- 1004 reads
The winds of change #2
The other one told me he loves me But I want my Saint Michael
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- 509 reads
Infection
Charlie stood, his shoulders thrashing. He stared at me through his terrified blue eyes. Blood trickled from his eyes and nose. His hands flew up to his head, pressing against his temples...
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- 2026 reads
Audacity
Sometimes in the lift at work as the clunk and hum kicks in and the postage stamp window goes grey undo your top, flashing no-one, feeling the air, the germs
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- 772 reads
A Candle in Barbed Wire
‘Well, it's absolutely bucketing it down now. I managed to park near the entrance though, or I would have been drowned.'
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- 4170 reads
The Picadilly Ghost
Set during one night in a trench during the First World War... it tells the story of a ghost who inhabits one of the trenches.... perhaps?
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- 606 reads
The Costington Institute
Looking at him cowering in the corner of his room, I couldn’t help but feeling sorry for him. Trapped like an animal, he had become desperate, violent even.
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- 732 reads
MY LIFE OY VAY 13. (Diary Of A Mad Drunk Bastard.)
MY LIFE OY VAY 13 (Diary Of A Mad Drunk Bastard)
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- 1396 reads
A 21st Century Romance
200 words.
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- 4055 reads
Big Issue
On the way to the 25 I smack into a tramp On the underpass. There is a bike angel behind you, he shouts. We all have one Yours is in Gemini yellow he wants you to remember
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- 717 reads
Janet & John's Bookshelf
poem written by accident whilst clearing house
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- 1193 reads
The Seal Hunters
'I like the story about Yonkla,' said Yolli. 'Can you tell us that one again?'
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- 1029 reads