Cherrypicked stories
The Lady of Chains
Its been there for as long as anyone can remember. The tower. It stands like an ice-pick, pushing through vines and shrivelled leaves, giving way to an arrow-head roof patched with moss.
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Tie Down Natasha
hope you feel this free soon
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While you sleep, circus ring
Don't know which title is better, if either. ANy suggestions most welcome and thanked for. Trapeeze trying glit, this is love currency Think only of bills and bank balances,
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Removing the Mirrors
There comes a point when dementia takes hold and you can no longer bear to repeatedly remind someone of who they are and the days they have lost.
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The First Date Vs. The Drunk
Clive clocks love birds in need of his wisdom. With the confidence of a traffic accident black spot, he swims across. His beard’s begun to clot with peanut dust and chits of shattered poppadom.
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See My Failure
You are so beautiful when you talk about being attacked when you were young I sympathise with your attacker.
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A Dying Fire
The balcony floor was covered in ash. My bare feet were buried in it, stained by dead embers. I raised my head and glanced across the earth. The ocean was on fire.
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the animal police
Johnny Mondays was fast becoming the least popular private dick in all Norwich, and he wasn’t even a private dick.
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the last of sir Walter Raleigh's Loveletters
I wrote this following the 'scandal' where Cambridge students were asked to compare the lyrics of Amy winehouse to the lyrics of Sir Walter Raleigh. It's Sir Walter's response to the speculation.
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Incurable
Your pain is incurable. Abandoned by every lover who felt the intemperate shadow cast by eyes that know there is no medicine. At night you fetch juice from the refrigerator,
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3
Oh yes, in me there’s scope for play – I am the simplest shape; I am sharp geometry. Sharp-edged. Pointed. I am the other, to the you and the me, the one that upsets our simple geometry.
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The Fire Ritual
Burning.
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July
Inspired by Ewan's 'September' - the title and the wistful quality of which is all-absorbing!
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Too Much Gravity
The baby seagull's back in the doorway of Burger King, pacing up and down, twitchy like an addict.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 23 Supply and Demands
...already caught, any thoughts of the future had to involve prison. How would anyone fill their time waiting to be locked in a cell? Maybe he needed to learn a new skill.
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Chapter 2 of Tripping
We're in Luke's world now.
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THE PIE SHOP. Chapter eight. GOSSIP.
The nineteen-fifties was a confusing decade.
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Talking Heads
Introduction
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Jolly Roger.
A tasteless Caribbean fantasy. Contains foul language.
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