Cherrypicked stories

Poem of the week

My boyfriend lives in a great big glass bubble

My boyfriend lives in a great big glass bubble And sometimes he lets me in
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The Crazy Gweilo of Tai Po

...based on a true story...
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THE OLD FAMILY FARM - poem

As children we swam in the creek.
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Viral - The Recovery

Getting better
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On the Waterfront

Early morning on the Clyde.
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Generation plastic pearl

Generation plastic pearl I kicked over a hedgehog bringing you lamb, gardenias, pears. You wiped up my tears with kitchen cloth and sat me down on the stairs.
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Such a biro way of being in a briefcase.

The courts are actually not very fair on matters missing out letters pulling the plug hole and then the bum skin sticks in and the whole thing about newsprint
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Motel meeting.

A chance meeting at a motel causes momentary concern.
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Is something good about to happen?

The pier on Friday night. Everything just as usual. I walked over to the bench with my head down and offered Dean Murphy one of Mum’s Marlboros if he’d move up.
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A Haunting in Shoreham

This story is supposedly based on true events as related to me by a resident of Shoreham, Long Island, New York. You be the judge, dear reader.
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The Story Snatcher

Other writers seemed to have tried a piece limited to 200 words, so I thought I'd give it a go too...
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The Last Rites of Horace Tees

A nod to M R James, Dickens and Aeschylus. Vengeance as a pincer movement, before and beyond the grave.
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A sense of literary death

A sense of literary death I was with her the last time... She was my better half...
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A Christmas Carol (My adaptation)

He was a tall man, powerfully built and yet not overweight although this was hard to tell under the thick winter coat he had pulled tightly around him.
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Tell Me On a Sunday

Notes passed can lead to trouble
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Emblematic trousers

So wear your emblematic trousers Take the high ground Do I care ? Bisect my Abba mantras Lease the tortoise Life aint fair If it were, I'd have a Stealth switch To enlighten you to me
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ROMA, ITALIA

EASTER SUNDAY,April 12-Florence,Italy
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I Can't Feel The Guns

Shooting that occurred on boxing day 2007 next to my block on the Aylesbury Estate. The body lay unnoticed for more than 24 hours. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7164679.stm

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