Cherrypicked stories
Twilight World
Food for the population of Yorkshire was delivered in rickety wooden boats. Gone were the days of the huge steel ships. There just wasn't that much of anything to be bought or sold anymore.
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- 1591 reads
Pond dipping in Haringey
Growing Up Competition Entry
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- 2291 reads
Green and Roses
I saw her dream on a white pillow patterned with bright defined roses. Just like the garden she dreamed of, as she ran through the green and possible, to that place
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- 2384 reads
Growing Up - Competition Entry
Competition entry
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- 3 comments
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- 2510 reads
Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter Three
Around three thirty, Kim dropped by while Dominic and I were in the kitchen, arguing over which flavor of ice cream was the best.
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- 1823 reads
Losing and finding
'Growing up' - competition entry
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skim
to skim or not to skim, that is the question
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- 3095 reads
Growing Up
Competition Entry: poem
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- 1365 reads
Changes to the Recipe
Competition Entry!
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- 2652 reads
Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter Two
Dominic was up before me, making noise in the bathroom as he flushed the toilet with his sleepy little hands.
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- 1277 reads
Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter One
"What happens next?" he asked me in that quiet, childlike voice of his.
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- 1860 reads
Growing Up - Competition Entry
Competition Entry for Growing Up
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- 14 comments
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- 5930 reads
Hit the Black
"Hello?" "John, it's me, Mark. We need to talk." "What's wrong?" "There's been an accident..." It was 6:30 am when John hit the black.
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- 2763 reads
Autumn Chill
No amount of Summers Can make up for a bitter Autumn
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- 5326 reads
"A Christmas Story" a true story
For 12 years the author played Santa Claus in New York City in response to letters by poor children addressed simply to "Santa Claus, North Pole".
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- 936 reads
Teenage Rebellion
and I’d hear Steve Lamacq say ‘Sleeper are at Shepherd’s Bush Empire’ and he may have been mentioning Tolkien villages
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- 2858 reads
Just Running
Competition Entry: Growing Up
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- 2171 reads
the rise of the ants
Because she really wanted one, and because I generally like to think I’m a decent enough guy, I bought my girl an ant farm as a present last Christmas gone.
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- 1707 reads