Cherrypicked stories
Ears of Corn
Finally we reach our destination, the old rusted farm gate that is the entrance to our playground.
- Read more about Ears of Corn
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1805 reads
Dance of the Nymphets
The guests are disappointed that there isn't a stripper. More than disappointed, for the party was talked about and built up all week at school.
- Read more about Dance of the Nymphets
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1856 reads
peeps
we have a heather and a jena and a lou-ou-ise we have a lesley and rhianna and a ly-yn-sey we mess around at lunch time and are so-sill-y we are often normal but are some-times-kin-ky
- Read more about peeps
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2562 reads
Windows of Madness
Steven is a psychiatric nurse close to burn out. His mind begins to merge with the madness which surrounds him.
- Read more about Windows of Madness
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2059 reads
Flow
Jay-Z narrates a lost child through the Tate Modern.
- Read more about Flow
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1675 reads
A to Z
A poem born of this week's Inspiration Point.
- Read more about A to Z
- 10 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 5307 reads
Paperbacks
We know where the wireless hotspots are
- Read more about Paperbacks
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1434 reads
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.
- Read more about February
- 13 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 5857 reads
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,
- Read more about Ranch waitress
- Log in to post comments
- 902 reads
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
- Read more about Evening Ferry
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1021 reads
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.
- Read more about In the Beginning
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2162 reads
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.
- Read more about Speaking of the Dead
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1394 reads
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.
- Read more about Love needs an object 07_02_09
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 1318 reads
The Man Next Door
Strange thing - that sixth sense of ours.
- Read more about The Man Next Door
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3053 reads
the girl with hands like an alien zygote
There is a girl I know, local girl, with hands like an alien zygote.
- Read more about the girl with hands like an alien zygote
- Log in to post comments
- 1228 reads
It Gets Us All In The End
This weeks IP Xanthic= yellowish in the OED Editied slightly 8/2/09
- Read more about It Gets Us All In The End
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2640 reads
Lonely Hearts ad for a knife
I am not just forkless but alone
- Read more about Lonely Hearts ad for a knife
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1497 reads
Alphabet of Ending Love (Inspiration Point)
The end was hard. Very hard. Extremely hard. Does it work?
- Read more about Alphabet of Ending Love (Inspiration Point)
- 15 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 7129 reads
UntilThe Sea Subsides
Until The Sea Subsides
- Read more about UntilThe Sea Subsides
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1120 reads