Cherrypicked stories
Every Word?
200 words that don't count
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A Murky Mind
I was drowning. Gagging and spluttering my way up to morning through a sea of deep-sleep snot. I reached for Kleenex. Ccchuuurrrpp.
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- 1327 reads
Seasons End
My top 10 books of the year.
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Submission
I don't know if it's possible to express dismay and relief at one and the same time but if it is, I just did. He'd demanded two-hundred! last time it had been fifteen-hundred and I'd struggled.
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GOODBYE YOUNG RUSSIANS - poem
Six weeks of summer-fun melted away.
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Coming, ready or not
A 200 worder.
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Christmas Shopping Blues.
A true story generated by a set of circumstances.
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Opposites for Beginners
Staying married
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Gulling
A baby falls like rain, communal feast in the ornamental garden, a baptism of caws.
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A STROKE VICTIM RECOVERY ADVENTURE (a self-help program)
Part of my recovery exercising was to record what took place after various movements, or activities, then push myself a little more. I learned not to give up.
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Two Blue Lines
Family planning got a little out of hand.
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Introvert
I could see detail in everything, the colour, the outlines, the minute cracks in the wall where the paint had dried, and the pores on their faces, as they laughed ...
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For You
I wore your tight silk against my intimate skin: so you could trace an outline of desire with a fingertip. As I do with mine. I grew my hair long so that it might cover your
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Yesterday Today.
Today she wears her pyjamas. Yesterday she was dolled in long boots & tight jeans and her hair bounced excitedly on her shoulders.
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The Morning After
A trashy read on holiday type story that i hope reveals some of those female inner workings
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Human Rights
It's getting hot in here
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Harboil: Part VI.
The thing is: the payphones are always ringing. Below ground, the Princess is sat on a gondola, finding romance on the bad canal.
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Look Behind You
So I said to the cat, ‘Bugger this, I can’t see a thing.’ And the cat said, ‘Look, do you want to meet this hedgehog or not? Because I’ve got a full itinerary tonight.’
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Saturday Afternoon Fire!
Do you like gardening?
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