Cherrypicked stories
Sleepbolt
Whatever is there evades your mark, goes under cover, lives - for tonight.
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- 833 reads
Bunting
The fountains have been turned on for the first time since Mandella
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- 1510 reads
Secret River
Writing is a secret river Spawning salmon-words Trust. Stumbling upon it, hot and confused, there is no option. And nothing so inviting as the sweet, shocking, slow-motion jump Into it's crystal clarity.
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- 1253 reads
Watch Child Marasmus
An individual comes to terms with what is really inside of himself.
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- 1034 reads
Paper Cuts
about the coat peg that I'd brought into the office and screwed in on the Friday when they were all having drinks for Lauren's birthday
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- 1107 reads
Saint Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Hill
How can such great wealth make its home, I wonder, in such poverty?
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- 1268 reads
The Laughing Buddha
440 words
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- 2102 reads
Monday 9th October 2006
Wake up calls. Remember this. There's a reason this is calling you. Don't think. Just do it.
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- 966 reads
The Cedar Chest
On reading 'Cypress & Cedar' by Tony Harrison, and having my underwear stolen. Not necessarily in that order.
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- 821 reads
The Dental Cleaning
Standing out in the frosty morning air, I prepared myself by burning a corporate cigarette of decent quality (feeling something like a rag-tag soldier of the american Revolution braving yet another tiny but necessary ordeal.)
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- 1038 reads
Sunday 8th October 2006
It'd be worth doing the karma.
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She looks like the girl who presents Brainteaser on Channel 5
She will marvel at the tiniest similarity. That we both love Crunchie Nut Cornflakes that we both have pale blue Nike hoodies that we were both on holiday in France when Jill Dando died.
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- 1052 reads
Cocktails at Ichizen
Ichizen are selling half-price cocktails tonight. I fancy getting blotto on a medley of strawberries, champagne, Russian vodkas and that special blend of passion that makes me feel like Duke Nukem jumping through a ruined city, burnt and amazed.
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- 1271 reads
20. On the Cusp...
New Year's Eve. Hm.
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- 960 reads
Friday 6th October
I've been reading 'The Seas Around Us'. Conscious that it's a history book now and may have been disproved by boring scientists with no romance in their souls, but I love the story of how the moon was created.
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- 907 reads