Cherrypicked stories
Offerings
Jackdaws leave no note, just gnarled twigs like bony fingers pointing at the women who live like clichés: alone, on a hill, with cats.
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- 1842 reads
Poe Girl...A classic retold
This is my tribute to Poe's Cask of the Amontillado.
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- 860 reads
Embryonic Genesis...A Fable of Sorts
Have you ever wondered where your talent came from? Have you ever wondered how you received your special traits? I know.
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- 1249 reads
Death Becomes Me
But she was a stranger on a train and I was a silly man for thinking I could be any comfort to her.
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- 6772 reads
40 days
Will eventually become a 40 day thing and be better. This is a draft and is here for feedback. The housemates gather in the kitchen. Big Brother calls Geoff to the diary room.
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- 2068 reads
I struggled for years with belly fat and now I know a thing
I struggled for years with belly fat and now I know a thing I say to myself that I’m art – I say to myself that my memory is a list box where I keep importants and not a manky crumb pod
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- 2580 reads
After Noon Delight
Tabbitha meets a handsome man at the coffee shop. Is it love at first sight? Or second?
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- 2303 reads
Mawson Triton & the Knightsbridge Posession
"He is a creature of the most awful occult nature. His mother was a near-feral witch of dreadful power; they say his fathers were one, a demon, the other a creature from far out in the ether."
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- 785 reads
The Meek (A univocalism)
They enter The Elk's Legs (est. seventeen-seventy-three) where he spends freely they get entrees, mezze, Red Cherry Reef, Deserts, then creme de menthe
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- 1816 reads
The Hamster Diaries 4
In which the hamsters get a new cage
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Freestyle
I thought of Pete speaking magic in his leather jacket, pointing out over a watercolour city, talking about the wonders of creation, making my friend blush just with his pro-noun-ci-ation,
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- 1031 reads
apart from 8
thighs tight, ankles like cricket’s legs, shoes as thin as needles, hair blonde, cornfield blonde at late summer sunset,
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Candle wax sky
Pellucid blue-eyes, whoever told you to-be-wise whoever told you, you could dream, beyond those? Monolithic, moonlit, midnight skies to drink the midnight curtain of sleep into waking hours
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- 1331 reads
12 Months PART A
Connor attempts to build bridges with his friends after his long term relationship fails. The trials and tribulations of "freedom".
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- 4317 reads
Digging Deeper (chapters 1 & 2)
Will suspects his girlfriend of having an affair. Some questions are best left unanswered but Will is Digging Deeper.
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- 2293 reads
Worlds Apart - Part 1
Connor leaves behind his house, job and pregnant ex-girlfriend to backpack around the world, hoping the dust will settle whilst he's away but time hasn't healed or changed a thing.
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- 1060 reads
Turn the shit into gold
Cockroaches, lust, revenge, God
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- 4003 reads
My-thology
My-thology (13th may 2008, 11.32am) This is the way down to Hades Let me lead you to my river Show you how to make it flow Dip your fingers in, watch your heel though
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- 1510 reads