Cherrypicked stories
A to Z
A poem born of this week's Inspiration Point.
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Paperbacks
We know where the wireless hotspots are
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February
The world is angled in black and white. I long for the soft curves of spring and all its shapely colours, blooming like a fist unclenched.
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Ranch waitress
Ranch waitress, ham fisted men have dreamed of you fingering yourself in the bathroom; they tell you in mornings when the day is banana bread. Give me your kidney, no, your knickers,
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Evening Ferry
Evening Ferry I watch her board, my black-haired girl, leaving me once more for the family that is not hers, but swallows her youth in their service. When she leaves me
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In the Beginning
This was a recent commission from the Science Museum. I had to write a story inspired by the Big Bang. I've tried to turn it into a love story, of sorts.
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Speaking of the Dead
I levitate the hatstand. In theory I could leave, but what comes out is like a language only twisted, not our own.
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Love needs an object 07_02_09
Love needs an object. It was love at first sight. Not only did I know, in that deep knowing that’s nothing to do with knowledge, it was as if it was already a fait acompli. Journey’s End.
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The Man Next Door
Strange thing - that sixth sense of ours.
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the girl with hands like an alien zygote
There is a girl I know, local girl, with hands like an alien zygote.
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It Gets Us All In The End
This weeks IP Xanthic= yellowish in the OED Editied slightly 8/2/09
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Lonely Hearts ad for a knife
I am not just forkless but alone
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Alphabet of Ending Love (Inspiration Point)
The end was hard. Very hard. Extremely hard. Does it work?
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UntilThe Sea Subsides
Until The Sea Subsides
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The Antropong Tree
In the Autumn the Mumbling Mushooms Those Mycelium Prophets of Doom Whisper ambiguous mutterings About crises and troubles what loom
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The Waif and the Ferryman
'Bad boy!' Thomas shouted, leaving the bull and rushing across the deck to stop the donkey from eating Mary's flowers.
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Namesake (Inspiration Point)
Jennifer Pickup, Googled.
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Marsten
"A rose?" he said. "Hmm, how odd..."
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A Twisted Tale
Funny fairytale frolics, inspired by Bradene's 'Twisted' and the snow!!!
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Boondock's Lullaby
In reverie ...
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