Cherrypicked stories
From the Park Fountain
From the park fountain Where the children drink, Lapping happily Between uncaring play And mothers' folded frowns. Dashing up ripples With little toy hands; Parachute droplets Wink in the sunlight
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City Lights... Country Nights
Big Jim Morris gets dumped by his wife. Can he find happiness with a lonely woman in the back street bar under those city lights?
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Ethnic Cleansing
She was always in. Confirmation leaked through by way of the dull, whiny hum of the stretching hoover, the dizzying spin of the washing machine or the clinking as she squeaked the duster round again.
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That Andalucian Moment
IPOW 27/06/08
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Joyland
It looked like someone had thrown a whole bottle of Domestos over a group of giggling women. Obviously a good place to pull you said.
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THE PIE SHOP Chapter Five Roy's Jinx
This sort of luck you can do without!
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How to Begin
There are ways of beginning. Take a handful of nothing and breathe a living breath all over it, as you shape and create a new meaning. There are ways of beginning.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 18 They Walk Sideways
There's a lot of people wearing hats. It's boiling inside with all the generated anticipation and a clear lack of chatting. I guess we've all made friends previously which is why we're here now.
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Dangerous Times.
Arthur's breakfast musings are rudely interrupted.
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The Wedding
The wedding was pretty dull. I was in bed by 11.30 and it often felt a bit 'Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights'
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It begins and ends with an acoustic piece I have some sympathy with.
We are fools, that at least is evident. Talk not of our foolishness and remember.
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No' A pome so much as a le''er
An evidential analysis of the problems that can circumnavigate when attempting transliteration of regional accentual variety (Written near the gentle clatter of Beau Belles)
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An Independence Flight
Some times we need to go back to see where we are and where to go from there .
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She's So Lovely
Charlie gets the girl.
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Hey, Joe!
Danny comes home from 'Nam and when he see his buddy's girl he knows she's the one he wants. The fun starts when he tells his friend, that he is going to steal his girl!
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In Another Country
By the water that is not theirs to stand in tall birds jabber. No one staring at the back of this crowd can fathom what is so important that they all must busy themselves with it
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Maya - Chapter four
Back to the beginning. Sasha's first day at University.
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Loving Cindy
Lee and Cindy grow up poor... and alone. All they have is their love for each other - and that is more than most kids had.
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Competition Entry - Growing Up
It was generally agreed that things had not turned out well. Even Lucy’s upturned nose for once could not disagree, in spite of her goody two shoes reflexes.
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Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter Fourteen
The reflection in the mirror forced me to back up a step.
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