Cherrypicked stories

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From Gone to Goodbye

Out of place? You bet. A great cockroach of a car, a Mercedes with eight black windows, waiting on a country lane.
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The Greatest Thing

...when you look at what's important in this life, and I mean, seriously think about it...you realise that love is the only tangible thing...the rest is transient, fleeting, unimportant...
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Single Straight Girl in Gay Bar

Single Straight Girl in a Gay Bar I dressed my cleavage up to the nines, I powdered my nose within an each of its life. Thoughts of retro disco and camp delights,
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Tie dye eyes

The lazy couple making love near the window. His hands caress the belt loops and curves. The knotted material of emotions hollow within, Twinkle orbs surround the wooden sky.
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Ten Cats and a DIY Investigation

It must be around here somewhere though I don’t remember putting it down and I’m sure I wouldn’t have given it away admittedly I can’t remember when I had it last
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bad experience in the underpass

The group of youths encircled me, their bizarre collective deformities creating this lumbering gait, edging heavily back on forth on in-turned feet.
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Splinter Soup

Splinter Soup We sit in the park on this old rickety bench, And you say how much our friendship has meant. That on all levels except marriage we do connect.
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My heart is a DJ

This is when you fall in lust and your heart beats to a new tempo, often not your own and then you realise that maybe at this time you really can't move to that rhythm so you have to stop.
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The Salon At The Pinnacle Of Man

Relax. You will recognise him by his haircut. The razor slipped and there was a sound like the door of a tomb sliding back. Most great discoveries are accidents.
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Page 200 from a novel you have not read

The 200th page from a novel that doesn't exist
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THE GIRL WHOSE CAKES TOLD SECRETS

This is a story about a girl, some very strange cakes and a notebook full of secrets.
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THE BOY AND THE INCREDIBLE PIGEON POSTMAN

When Jem finds a pigeon in his breakfast cereal his life will never be the same again...
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Mouseology

Mouseology Mouseology is the study of tiny things cooking pancakes perfectly with the sous chef earnestly grating cheese carrying lunch to her sprawling brother conspiritorial with adult elan
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Meat

How tender are you?
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Skins

We grease in bed for hours- 11 episodes of Skins Punctuated by flicking crumbs Off my pigeon chest. At 12.12, We try out our worst insults: 'You are not even an echo
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The Oxford Hunt

A chase through foxed pages
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The House That Frank Built

...inherent responsibilities...

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