Cherrypicked stories
Something to Say
I warm my bare feet on the dash board, sitting in the boyish manner that makes you laugh, as we drive up Avondale Road.
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The Vermeer
An art lover inexplicably overwhelmed.
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Hot Swine Calls
The national Swine Flu Emergency Pandemic Death, Doom, Gloom and Recovery Hot Line.
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Rolling back by 42 years
He was standing near the policed barrier that was zero point for reaching Ram Janam Bhoomi Garbh Sthal.
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Mrs Malaprop's Old Bones
Inspiration point.
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Chapter Ten: Bad News More Terrible Than You Can Ever Imagine
Kate waits for Medium Brown to call. Then George calls and she gets some truly terrible news.
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Love Shall Have Its Way
Forbidden Love?
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“Science Facts: Vanilla from Madagascar”
The Conquistadors tore a hole into paradise and saw paradise and touched paradise and tasted paradise and, commanded by God, meant to take it all back to their gray castles. The
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Windows of Madness (Part 11)
Only a few more pieces left in the jigsaw puzzle, a bad accident on the ward and back to the future for Llewelyn.
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SF. Pt.17c. Virgin Gorda.
More hanky-panky in the Caribbean.
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A Long Time Gone!
Human foibles and fancies; no match for natures’ patience…
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Early memories
She was so beautiful. I sat there taking in every detail of her features. The small rounded nose, the full ruby lips and those vivid blue eyes accentuated by her golden ringlets.
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Dusk
Eveline escapes from the nursing home where she is trapped with the remnants of her past and sets out on an escapade to reclaim herself - but the light is fading as quickly as her thoughts...
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Bread and Water
It's been a bit since I've posted anything; I've had to take a break for my thesis. Would appreciate any feedback; this is a bit different from my usual.
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Dead Men Talk, Part 1
Crits and comments welcomed. :-)
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In the Bawdyhouse
The oldest trade and basic needs.
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Vitriolic Sticky Wicket
I wondered if it was for real or some joke we would later share. But further comments set the seal they really filled me with despair.
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The Trouble with Grace
We couldn’t help ourselves, even though we knew where it would end.
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Drifting
The world was born in ice and fire, With it myself, both truth and liar. The hopeless whorls of man's desire And unaware, I drifted. And eons passed, and then, and on
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