Cherrypicked stories

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Love returns

It was your love that rattled his teeth like small stones, shifting in the sea.
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Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter Four

Kim dropped us off at my house around seven or so, though I couldn't be sure, since my watch had been lost three days ago in an excellent game of soccer.
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Elena

"You must be so happy!", her mother exclaimed on the phone. "Must I?" Elena wondered to herself.
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Musically Ungifted

Love amongst the ivories
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WARREN

Elaine inserted her final clip into the hot-barrelled SG99. Only thirty rounds left. Thirty rounds between her and oblivion.
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I Am Folklore

Growing Up Competition Entry
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The Cranky Man

As I get older, I find myself less inclined to grace and tolerance towards those who show none for others. I teeter-totter on the edge, berating lack-of-indicators,
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Sci-Fi

I was thinking about how much I like sci-fi earlier this afternoon when a spaceman came up to my door and put a letter through my letterbox. Actually on second thoughts it may have been a postman.
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Most people don't realise

Sixty percent of all European brown bears have unfulfilled ambitions; in Romania, they are known to harangue the mainstream poetry presses
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Always Read the Label Chapter 15 Counting to Four

I wish I could say a mystical force entered the room and took us all into a special magical place where we found ourselves able to communicate without words like long lost brothers.
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SONG OF THE LOONS story

The boy wanted his family to work things out like the loons, to be a family, at peace. "Could this really happen?" he wondered.
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TSSB 1979 - Competition Entry

What is that in the blue and yellow cape?
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The Gossip Mongerers

The Gossip Mongerers (10th June 2008, 12.11pm) You say something; I’ll let a bit slip; we’ll hint and circumlocute without actually spilling the beans, because our beans are magic ones.
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Without a Song

Prompted by inspiration point.
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Skin

Skin (10th June 2008, 11.36am) I am a prisoner within my own body limits, restricted by cell walls and creeping minutes as I age and shed, one by one, the building blocks
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New Life

My second life began when I fell into a tree. I didn’t know it at the time, but Life One was over.
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Inside Outside

Poem in response to Tony's suggestion in Inspiration Point, since I submitted both my competition entries yesterday...
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Twilight World

Food for the population of Yorkshire was delivered in rickety wooden boats. Gone were the days of the huge steel ships. There just wasn't that much of anything to be bought or sold anymore.
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Pond dipping in Haringey

Growing Up Competition Entry

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