Cherrypicked stories
The leg braces
She did it again. Carly tried to get away, she ran, she cried – no, Mom, no! – but it was useless.
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Blue Is Beautiful
"Life is full of disappointment yes, and I am full of life." - John Gorka, folk songwriter In moments of pathetic insanity, I turn on the U.S. TV
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- 880 reads
London 1960
“We ask God to forgive us the sins we will commit in the future”. Every week we ask this, and then we come here next week and ask him to forgive last weeks’. This sinning is complicated.
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Coming of age
Out here where the effort of it reduces me to shaking, I am overall grey.
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The Strip is hip
short term resident struggles to find identity in dust bowl desert and eyes up that lucky 7
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- 825 reads
Thirst
Her hometown belongs to a big stream. Like a spiderweb this stream has conquered everything in the city, the center, the suburbs, big streets and small ones, plazas, the shopping mall.
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The Encounter
It's about my encounter with a weird man who asked for donations for his mentally ill sister. I just turned away. Now I wonder what would happen if I gave him some money.
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Futility
A Passing weary thought!
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SF. Pt.9 One of these days.
One of these days, thinks Arthur, I’ll write all this stuff down.
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Godemiché, or I fell on it
A separate wing has been built to house these types, who blush at the door, walk funny, who used to be able to hide what had happened from other patients.
Ladies Who Lunch At The Entemol
The waiter served the mermaid pie and a glass of our favourite tipple He pulled out the cork and a wasp flew out and stung me on the nipple
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Unrealized
One man finds something intriguing, and realizes he sees things differently. Another man cannot find hope.
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Winter of Discontent
How I covet the stucco fronted lives; soft lighting, desirable postcode of those who had chances and better parents. The acerbic brew spilled from my cups filled pages with resentments.
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An Almost Chance
"Would you cheat on her?" "Pardon?" I looked confused. She repeated her words, this time adding extra emphasis to "you," "cheat," and "her."
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RS11 - The Shift
Ryan wakes up back home in Truro with no memory of his life in Cliffport. His parents are alive, his brother is not trying to kill him, and his best friend is still his best friend.
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- 1185 reads
My long lost friend
On a railway station
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Entity of Lust
Erotica is never my speciality, but I still tried. So here it is.. Hope you like it.
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The Siren's Song
As you draw me in I lie beside you, facing you on your bed as we drift off to sleep you breathe out as I breathe in your breath feels hot in my mouth. I let a small whimper escape;
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