Cherrypicked stories

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Forgotten

“You seen her?” Tim asked, turning to me. I looked over at the bungalow, thinking. “Not since before the flood.” I finally said.
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The winds of change #2

The other one told me he loves me But I want my Saint Michael
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Infection

Charlie stood, his shoulders thrashing. He stared at me through his terrified blue eyes. Blood trickled from his eyes and nose. His hands flew up to his head, pressing against his temples...
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Audacity

Sometimes in the lift at work as the clunk and hum kicks in and the postage stamp window goes grey undo your top, flashing no-one, feeling the air, the germs
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A Candle in Barbed Wire

‘Well, it's absolutely bucketing it down now. I managed to park near the entrance though, or I would have been drowned.'
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The Picadilly Ghost

Set during one night in a trench during the First World War... it tells the story of a ghost who inhabits one of the trenches.... perhaps?
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The Costington Institute

Looking at him cowering in the corner of his room, I couldn’t help but feeling sorry for him. Trapped like an animal, he had become desperate, violent even.
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Big Issue

On the way to the 25 I smack into a tramp On the underpass. There is a bike angel behind you, he shouts. We all have one Yours is in Gemini yellow he wants you to remember
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Janet & John's Bookshelf

poem written by accident whilst clearing house
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The Seal Hunters

'I like the story about Yonkla,' said Yolli. 'Can you tell us that one again?'
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Safari

200 words.
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Humanity Made Sadness An Illness

I have spent many years learning to cope with my own depression and helping other people with their's. I came to the conclusion that mental illness is basically unhappiness.
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Dirt: A Noir Story

(edited) Ch 1 Taylor “Have you ever tasted dirt? Have you ever felt your heart stop, if only for a minute? Have you ever smelled the sweet odor of wet earth, and swallowed it?"
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Bravefart

This is the first part of one of the chapters contained in the author's first novel, "4-4-3", that can be obtained by visiting www.4-4-3.co.uk
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Ask

200 words.
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Going to get me

Celia Boydell is a girl who thinks that Hershey’s Kiss chocolates are the turds of glam rock squirrels she keeps a fistfull in her pocket and hangs out in parks.
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Protest

I am staging a bed-in. It has been 4 hours and The press haven't arrived yet But I have told Clair And she says it all sounds Deeply political. My props: a Sandy Denny album
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Men of Bees

Men of Bees From Bethnal Green down to the Boleyn they buzz around, bit of business here, bit of business there …

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