Cherrypicked stories
How To Build A Man
Entry for Vanessa Gebbie competition based on Alison Dunne (ivoryfishbone)'s poem.
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Look At That (Inspiration Point)
A not quite every day story of office folk,triggered by the 'happy as Larry' Inspiration Point. Oh, and if you didn't know, the band is real.
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- 1525 reads
Gland I. Ely
Mucking around with new prose ideas - set in the future, an adventure-travel writer reports back on his first week in England. First prose I've posted on here in many years...
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- 1206 reads
Blow
Room scattered with the things, that every days are made of. Rotting food from days ago. Stale curls of crisps. Her body is a centerpiece. Its skin iced, diced, puffed.
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- 1977 reads
Novel Extract; Two
...the other zigzagging sutures that held her arm and leg muscles to the bone...
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Errata: Nineteenth Episode - The Moose Speaks
'I am not a moose.’
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- 907 reads
The Story Behind The Headline
The Headline might vary, between tabloid and broadsheet, the BBC and Channel 5. But this is the story behind it.
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- 1441 reads
5:32
It is too nice a day to be living in England. (This poem is an homage to two amazing David Berman poems: "Now II" and "Charm of 5:30")
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- 1140 reads
Day 24
Salat al-Janaza, father it should be you
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- 1245 reads
The Reality of Death
A true story of a boy who is terminally ill.
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- 1023 reads
Diary of a Self-Harmer
Today I’ve done something stupid again. I’m lying at the bottom of the stairs and I can hear two teachers saying: “Come on Sheila, stop being silly. Get up now.”
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- 2937 reads
The [weather] Girl
She's a prude to the eye and a whore to the ear.
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- 1001 reads
Queen Of Her Savannah
The cat, Plum, died three weeks ago today.
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- 2479 reads
The Swordfish And Shave
The second-hand flicked past the fingers of midnight, the virgin moments of a new day. The 'Swordfish and Shave' was emptying for the
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- 1513 reads
Out of the Ashes
Could it be happening again? Was it possible this baby would die, too?
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The Other Woman
200 words.
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- 3674 reads
Movement
She moved briskly through the wintry evening. Every step seeming to crack the frozen ground and threatening to gape open beneath her.
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- 568 reads
Come On, Cocktease
A modern remix of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress.' Read the original here: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm
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- 1331 reads
Stephen Hughes
I want him to open up like a patio door
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- 1775 reads
Very Bad with Money
I have been barred from PartyPoker
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- 2153 reads