Cherrypicked stories
Just Hangin
Just Hangin First time in years I'm all alone all my costumes,roles,jobs, have peeled away I'm in retreat with no religion bubblewrapped in silence my people are travelling without me
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- 1155 reads
I don't want anything bad to ever happen to you
We both know your fish will die, that you will stand on upturned plugs.
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- 7096 reads
I've got a friend called Byron now
we play on his Nintendo Wii
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- 1506 reads
Keeping Up With The Browns
A final farewell.
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- 3374 reads
The Chain
The rain is dislodging the dirt from the pores of the city. It is seeping up the legs of his jeans and squelching between his toes, warm like stagnant bath water.
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- 998 reads
That's How I Ended Up Killing Noel Edmonds
I found it difficult enough to talk on the phone as it is, never mind ringing ‘Old Nick’ up for a pointed chinwag.
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- 1778 reads
Alex
Waistcoats. Red kissing the blue. Brandy coughing snifters, of a 40 a day obsessive. The killer black, to the top left pocket. With a little bit of screw. Sheffield steel. Shamrock luck?
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- 1865 reads
Lovely Drizzle
200 words.
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- 2797 reads
Andy
Another 'chapter' to go with 'Tom' and 'Josie'. Andy's the bankrupt Tom dealt with at the Court. Josie appears briefly. 3,000 words.
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- 1182 reads
Hansel and Gretel
We were lost to the forest the day our Mother and Father abandoned us. I run fast; the vast collage of leaves and trees is a wild blur to me. My breath wheezes in my throat.
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- 9980 reads
Escape
Plastic phantasmic Bass rhythms. Base rhythms SMA junkie
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- 1065 reads
"Steven Hawking"
“Steven Hawking” There was a small boy, a small and strange and quiet boy, who could not watch anything, who one day watched a show about Steven Hawking. And found a new enemy.
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- 1625 reads
Aggravate and response
Aggravate and response She sent bad karma out like racer pigeons, like dominoes, like cigarette ash in the eye of a cat. The maybe of a beginning is an undersheet
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- 1464 reads
Dunt the Ploughman
In a village in the Yorkshire Wolds during the early years of the 20th century a ploughman marries the local beauty but this is not to the liking of the landlord of the village pub who plans revenge.
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- 934 reads
tales of the green fairy
I can’t even remember what it was that we were commemorating…. If it was a birthday or other kind of celebration, I have no idea.
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- 1271 reads
a sad figure is cut
a sad figure is cut on the sidewalk by an unjewish man with a jewish name his own shadow stares up at him watching his shoulders slump as his words of denial and bitterness
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- 1687 reads
Past lives
For mum, it was all a bit prosaic - she was called Gillian she had on ugly shoes she was at the edge of a cliff- but didn't jump until later when taken back to smallhold drudgery
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- 902 reads
The packet of hair dye that wanted to be a glue stick
Once upon a time, there lived a packet of hair dye that dressed like a nostalgic glue stick.
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- 982 reads