Cherrypicked stories
Sheet
Inspired by the work of H. Craig Hanna
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- 837 reads
on the roof
"Suicide!" proclaimed an animated Little Rawlings, arms extended to his either side like a pyjama-clad Christ of the industrial roofways.
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- 1715 reads
Ruby
Deal goes to Viet Nam as a new Marine Second Lieutenant. He is crippled at the Battle of Khe Sanh. Back home his wife wants to date a real man, not a cripple.
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- 1391 reads
El Paso
The wild young cowboy, Texas Red, falls in love with the beautiful Faleena. When she flirts with another the guns start shooting. Based on the Marty Robbins song, "El Paso."
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- 1213 reads
The Burning Bed!
Mother had come home to die. She knew there was no hope left so she requested to be among us all before she went. It didn’t last long, maybe a week or so.
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- 1311 reads
From The Inside
The only truth she knows Comes and goes The more she tries to reckon And the lads outside Laugh and deride her Yet her traitorous eyes still beckon She opens her doors wide
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- 2285 reads
Faron Talbot: Tree
When I tell you I'm becoming a tree, I don't mean I'm becoming a tree like children become trees inbetween being aeroplanes or canoeists. I'm becoming a tree because ...
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- 2694 reads
Distance
As the night time fades into morning, you can see for a single moment, in the shimmer of distant stars, a subtle trace of things that we will never understand.
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- 2081 reads
A Gangster Smile
The first time I see Archie, waiting in the playground, I hate him. Of course I hate him. He is fat with the weight of regular restaurant dinners.
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- 7384 reads
The Most Good and Generous of People
They started on him at the funeral.
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- 1764 reads
A Naturally Boisterous Child
'Obsessed, they're calling it?
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- 1635 reads
Drunk, Polite, Lazy, Scared
Boy meets girl. They stay together. Is this love?
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- 1942 reads
Colophon
This book was set in Leavened, 12pt. The font was designed by Frank Cossill during a period of predigious arrogance. He called himself “The Font” and was
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- 2116 reads
Humble Pi
ok it's a bad pun... but the haiku are ok-ish..
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- 1439 reads
Jean Paul Sartre Is In My Cornflakes
JD Salinger once wrote that probably for every man there is at least one city that eventually turns into a girl, but I think the opposite is also true, that a girl can just as easily turn into a city.
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- 3237 reads
Leaving the Underground
The daily torture of a homewards commute ends in panic.
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- 1480 reads
Scratchs of Hope
One of these days she will win back all the sacrifices she gave throughout her life. She will win back her lost years and her forgotten home.
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- 1089 reads
Fairground Boys
We did know what the girls saw in them, of course we did....
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- 3201 reads
The Most Awesome Story Ever
There once was a man who was awesome. Everywhere he went people would bow down before his awesomeness. "He's so awesome!" they'd cry. "Hail the awesome one!" was another shout.
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- 3789 reads
Connection
‘Are you ok?’ she asks, flatly, swallowing the anxiety that pokes itself into the corners of her voice.
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- 1536 reads