Cherrypicked stories
Entry Point
The midwife's forceps held against a waxing moon - an astrolabe, an obsterical fillet: here - take them. Stand and wait. Adam drifts in his space-womb weightless as
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Here (IP)
Edited, punctuated, named, any better? Too much punctuation?
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Hello! It’s us.
"Hold on! I think I see an interested reader."
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Seed Head
Poem. IP teenspeak "fierce'
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The Child We Can Never Have
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Everlasting Love
They stepped from the shadowed alley onto the rain grayed cobbles of the square as the sun danced through a rent in the lowering cloud.
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Crisis Memes - 7 - Thu 07 Aug 2256 10:10
Two days back in uniform and Bruce felt that he had never been away.
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Alices' Cater Wrap
....a bit of silly. IP 15.06
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On your own again.
They're closing the Guardian Soulmates site tonight, so gather up all your faces and save them elsewhere. No longer are your preferences important, no longer will anyone be able to tell if you're interested in men, women or friendship; whether you prefer the carrot or the stick.
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Windows of Madness (part 9)
Another click on the rack's ratchet for Steve. I think his arm sockets will give way first.
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Growing Apart
In the beginning we were like county borders – the divide only manmade; our geography the same. Like landscapes we lay entwined -
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On Remembering Hotel Esmeralda
Anyone who has stayed there will understand it's magic.
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Demolition
When I was nine years old, I found God in church.
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Sweet Emmaline
Life...ain't no bowl of cherries.
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Chapter Five: Another Egg Bites the Dust
Kate faces disappointment when the egg doesn't stick. Does this really mean she'll have to go for Attempt Number Three?
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Sleep
I love to watch You sleep The quiet serenity That wipes across your face The slight smile How your hair falls Playfully over an eye I see the mischevious little boy That was
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Blackbird Rapper
Dawn chorus??
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Love
I breathe the words. Form them With the bow of my lips. I set my teeth. Too small for this big thing I trip over the meaning.
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Rules of Engagement
which might be made to be broken.....
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Crisis Memes - 2 - Tue 05 Aug 2256 08:10
Inside the dark metal-sided air-duct, the centrifugal force from the ships rotation was carrying Amber gently but irreversibly down a smooth slope.
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