Cherrypicked stories
Apples and cheese
Apples and cheese I wouldn’t make much of a ploughman given I don’t like apples or cheese. In bed I’d unshirt him enjoy all the things and then like beer off a dog’s lip
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An Apology for a Class
Poor Inez puts up with a lot...
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- 1926 reads
Of mice and not men
You might need to know something aboutthe 12 steps.
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- 1278 reads
What It Is... (Scene 2)
Next bit. Any comments gratefully received!
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- 5244 reads
Just Eight Lines
The finger of creation.
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- 1061 reads
Some Drones
A waitress encounters a man lost in a story, but who's story is it?
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- 1979 reads
Fountains
Fountains light the sound of gardens in twinkle plink pink pink make baths for birdsong and fall down drunken steps in a joyous white unfurling
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- 1174 reads
The New Confessions
IPOW - May offend, possibly.
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- 1584 reads
Humiliation
The old woman had her.
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Poetical Science
The twenty-first century – what a wondrous place! Where no one is judged by their creed, sex or race Where technology makes our lives sprightly and gay Isn’t the world looking sciency today?
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- 766 reads
George Aligayah
enunciates every word whenever he is alone, "The Queen is Dead."
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I Love Everything About You
This is the Prologue from my collection of short stories, "Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love", which is available from Amazon and other bookshops. For more info please visit www.richardbardsley.net
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- 5662 reads
The Whole Truth
...or some of it.
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what isn't happening
I like it when an unrequited love visits me in my dreams I get to hold her and that even get naked with her which is nice but, we never you know actually do it do the do do the sex
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- 2860 reads
What It Is
First scene of a stage play. An average day in a Council Drop In Centre...
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- 4888 reads
The Cuckoo’s Nest
Am I here because of the madness within, or was I infected by this place?
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- 3694 reads
The Ploughman's Apprentice
He dropped the skull and jumped backwards, shuddering at the sight of its grinning jaws and earth-filled eye sockets…
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Catching the train
With Christmas and New Year celebrations out of the way she was determined that she had to take this journey.
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- 2175 reads
To Dorothy
Who are these people from my childhood?
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- 764 reads
Dark Days Ahead
Is that the thunder that I heard?
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- 1620 reads