Cherrypicked stories
American Couple
What it means to be in love.
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- 519 reads
Alas, Bubbles
RIP Bubbles, ??-19/2/2007
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- 1347 reads
Our Darling Jessica
A boy was killed down at the docks today. Crushed beneath a crane. A woman tells me about it as I pour hazelnut syrup into her latte.
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- 1312 reads
I Listened to You
Listen, you said. Please listen.
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- 1221 reads
Raptor Watch
Successful breeding breeds contempt
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- 882 reads
Errata: Sixteenth Episode - A Catastrophe Of Historic Proportions
Near the city limits, amongst the sequestered grot of the Plague District, Tetradaemon Hetchel Plantagenet Parish dropped his shoulder and rugby tackled a children’s hospital.
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- 1055 reads
The Pie Shop.
Memory Lane leads me there.
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- 1341 reads
Ray's House
Hearts quickening beneath nylon school blazers. Clenching fists held against prickling hips as we reached the creaking gate that let you know you had reached Ray's house.
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- 833 reads
Greeting
‘welcome, please note, my face is greeting.’
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- 1045 reads
o, oxford street!
The boy with the flashing shoes hand in hand with his mum is beating us and our engine and I hate myself for thinking that dress in the window of Selfridges dress with the price tag like a stabbing ha
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- 2192 reads
Heath-Robinson Manual of Repairing Broken Hearts. Volume 1
Meccano Me
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- 671 reads
Have you ever Slept in a Car?
December 2004. A few days until Christmas. It had been almost a month since my mother and I had left our old apartment. We now slept in our car. Yes, it’s true, we were homeless. (re post)
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- 3146 reads
Transfer Talks
a nostalgic tale of 1970s Scottish football with a pasta sauce
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- 2090 reads
Hairs
When my PC had a nervous breakdown, its electrical cocktail of gin and DGs took with it – and from me – c:\my docs\my life\my soul\my pics\my gallery.
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- 1129 reads
White Soul Star
About the power and influence of earliest experience.
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- 1087 reads
Black Stars and my Obsession with Fire
Samera hates life, and after she loses her best friend life seems meaningless. But Siera shows up one day with a suprise. Shes a vampire.
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- 945 reads
I Was Delia Derbyshire's Lover
200 words.
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- 3183 reads
The Splicer
One day he claims to have shown up late with no legs. The next day no arms. But still he came with flowers.
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- 1237 reads
Blessed are the peacemakers
Peace lies beneath each conflict, deep within each heart and soul. It is the point of our existence, Our universal. Final goal.
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- 852 reads