Cherrypicked stories
Undressed
My ex wife sitting naked on the bare stone floor, smoking my cigarettes, listening to the songs of Leonard Cohen. It’s the coolest thing that I’ve ever seen. There has been no sex.
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Magic Kingdom
Ned Vasey walked into Disneyland with a Yellow-Billed Hornbill in a cardboard box that read tinsel and lights.
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Santa wore a Harley Davidson Jacket
'Actually, it's more commom for Santa to bring presents than take them away. You must have been a naughty girl this year. Hur! Hur! Hur!'
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Inspiration Point - Smoke In The Valley
The valley spread out before me. From high up this end, I could see all the way down to the old weir. Beyond it, behind a stand of eucalypts, stood my grandparents house, the place where I grew up.
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Hitchcockian
His life lacked the appropriate cues. When she told him she loved the concierge, he told her to walk towards him quickly, and then he walked backwards slowly. “Contra-zoom,” he said.
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Cleaning
It's prose but it's mercifully short. Possibly part of something else. Blunt criticism welcome if offered.
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Altersex
A little bit naughty.
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Sniffing
Oh dear me, do I need help?
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Ribbon
You wore a blue ribbon, over white stockings for your wedding day. The land opened up in front of us, spread out towards the horizon. And you said, how the river could be a ribbon too.
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Hey There, Georgetown Girl
poem...or just some cut-up prose... both!
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Waiting for Haiku
Please don't go overboard and treat this seriously... it's just a bit of fun!
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Glory Days
In those hungry years when we were young we had nothing.
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The E-cot
A family prepares for the birth of a child.
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Scene from an Imaginary Western
IPOW mythagora is probably a made up word... but if it existed - being made from myth and agora - it might have Ancient Greek roots and mean place of legend.
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Acceptance
My mother drew in my cries in a glittering net from the pit of my stomach.
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Slade and Wham at Christmas
and you hear Slade and Wham and Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea.
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unshaven man at a window
I’m not sure what I’m dancing to.
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In Another Life
“There is a better place,” she says. Tells me it’s my call. Up to me to decide where that will be.
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Myth Day 2
DAY 2: INT. BATHROOM OF MOTOR HOME, MORNING. FADE IN:
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