Cherrypicked stories
No Surprise Gladioli
"It is impossible to have a proper relationship with women when you want to cut them all up" (subject, case study from The Sexual Perversions and Abnormalities by Clifford Allen, 1940)
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- 1001 reads
Twistical Mourning
Inspiration point
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- 1081 reads
Your Wee Small Hour
Brains of a rocking horse. Leading you to the petrol tank. Drinking in the bad day. A trash can Sinatra hue. Sinks you. And you can murmur your life, for a dollar quart.
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- 1031 reads
Neighbour (April 1)
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- 3236 reads
Explaining It
"My whole life is a series of dummies and breasts." (Subject, case study from The Sexual Perversions and Abnormalities by Clifford Allen)
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- 994 reads
Pressure Drop
With you. in this bed. Undressed. Fitting each other. As if new socks. Our minds take trips. Fuelled by tears, born of heartbreak. We uncage the stormed nights. Later.
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- 1001 reads
A LIKELY STORY! (Inspiration Point)
Men who read this will wince, women will snigger, cruelly!
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- 1330 reads
31st March
The tide was out this afternoon, further than we had ever seen it.
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- 902 reads
Two Russian Sonnets
One is about my father, one is about my mother
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- 3195 reads
Beautiful Woman
linked Haiku...now more a waka!
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- 2278 reads
Broken
He was sitting on his own when I arrived, at the back of the TV room in a green velvet armchair, biting the insides of his lips together.
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- 708 reads
You Here Bells
This was it. A metal leaf bent up at the sides like a rolled tongue. Or rather, a canoe. Handforged from iron. And here the pitted striker, gone at with tiny axes it looked like.
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- 913 reads
The Opposite of Linen
I didn't like your cheap suits. Your highlights. Your roots. I didn't like your voice or your name. That accent grated. I didn't like your attitude.
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- 1070 reads
How To Build A Man
Entry for Vanessa Gebbie competition based on Alison Dunne (ivoryfishbone)'s poem.
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- 5643 reads
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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- 1534 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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- 1218 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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- 1978 reads