Cherrypicked stories
Saturday Afternoon Fire!
Do you like gardening?
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- 1110 reads
Swimmer
the real thing was in front of me here. At 5 in the morning. Shivering in her silly mini skirt. I went to the fridge and got out a Capri sun. “Take it. It’ll help”.
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- 1297 reads
Malandro
a lesson in love and 'malandragem'...short prose 600 words
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- 2183 reads
Chapter Seven: Watling Island
It always gave her a sense of malapropos vainglory to know that her family had been honoured so.
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- 2542 reads
Metric Mnemonic
I thought of capitalising this.
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it's a matter of taste.
only words, and words can't hurt, can they?
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Ode to a Nerudean Apple
And would you believe me if I told you that this apple sings? Green and perfect, fleshy womb of nature, gleaming in the light of a perfect sun, shining, radiant, a golden delicious miracle,
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How some Men Are Broken
“How some men are broken” * Some men are broken in a way that you will recognize immediately; wrapped up stiff, in whatever support they found after some disaster
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- 886 reads
El Camýno Mezcal
Sects’n beasts...... Sierra Madre, Michoacan, Mexico.
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- 1023 reads
Satisfaction guaranteed
Would you settle for second best?
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Pressure
Sleepless nights make for troublesome days.
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- 1014 reads
Arena
A man finds a way out of his midlife crisis.
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Rehab 101: An Intro to seeking help for being crazy in a crazy world
Opinions/advice to those who are thinking of entering a drug/depression rehabilitation program for the first time. Things I wish I had known the first time I went to rehab.
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- 602 reads
Tassology
She was a tassologist, she explained. ‘I am not here to tell you your fortunes. I’m here to teach you to read your own tea leaves.’
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One Green Bottle
I'm having problems talking. It's all clear what I have to say, but she's just looking at me, bemused, half smiling, and embarrassed.
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On Temple Street
In the amber light of morning, after the markets, the street is awash: plastic and vegetable scraps lie at the feet of the last few Chinese hookers, standing in doorways, marooned in morning.
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Nostalgia Competition
The Owlers Wife My Jemmys out tonight down Tenterden way a visiting his Father took sick at least I'm to say it or a drinking in Horsmonden telling tales
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AT MOOSONEE, ONTARIO essay
Suddenly, something ticked in my brain. Our ski-doo was heading for a narrow footbridge over the river and it was getting closer every second. "No, Denny, TURN!!"
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Chapter Five: The Old Gaol
He resembled a blighted potato. His skin was jaundiced and mottled and scabby and his eyes bulged as though he had been hung at some point but without any luck.
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- 1262 reads