Cherrypicked stories
Quote, Unquote
Inspiration point 28.3.2008
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The Old Port, Limassol
Where your defence spending goes...
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A TROPICAL CHILDHOOD.
The joys and perils of growing up in post colonial Africa.
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TIDBITS poem
Ridge over yonder hopes to be part of an eagle's soar.
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Gibbous House 4
Luncheon in the Chaste Maid
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The Hamster Diaries 1
The decision to purchase hamsters went something like this: In the pub on Friday night, already drunk. Me: I want a hamster. I'm going to buy a hamster. Everyone Else: Brilliant.
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Litter (A play) Part 2
Afternoon
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Learning the Names
School is not the sort of place you can just walk in. First, you must know you have a name. Then you must know what that name is. But even that isn’t enough.
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Cancer
Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs, Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. W.H. Auden
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Gibbous House
This is something I've been messing about with for a while. It's a bit different for me. Feel free to say how bad you think it is...
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Crackling
He liked to crunch The hairy bit The chewy fat A habit That made her gag. For her, it was indicative Of a lasciviousness The grease would speckle His lips and remind her
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A Live One
It's a lust story. It wants you to read it.
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Novella
A successful actor is drawn back to his home country and to a secret that haunts him. First part of the novella.
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Norm and Tanya
poem, for Tanya and Norm
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The Grey Danube
a visit to Budapest Image author's own, created from PD elements...
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Lamentations
This city, once filled with people became a widow, now finally a corpse. This road, a string of asphalt, dangles like a stray limb from an autopsy table.
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Our love is a filthy love
Our love is a filthy love That spends the day wrapping us in sweated sheets Licking the juice from our faces Before blearily delving under again To burp sweet nothings into our navels
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The Lima News, July 11 1950
For Harriet 1911 - 1950
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I Know Where I Am
I know where I am. I am standing in the hallway of my old house, the house I’d lived in as a child. I am outside my old bedroom door, and I am inside, sobbing.
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