Cherrypicked stories

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Sleepbolt

Whatever is there evades your mark, goes under cover, lives - for tonight.
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Bunting

The fountains have been turned on for the first time since Mandella
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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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Watch Child Marasmus

An individual comes to terms with what is really inside of himself.
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Fever to Tell

200 words.
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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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Saint Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Hill

How can such great wealth make its home, I wonder, in such poverty?
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Kenidjack

200 words.
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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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Lose This Skin

200 words.
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The Cedar Chest

On reading 'Cypress & Cedar' by Tony Harrison, and having my underwear stolen. Not necessarily in that order.
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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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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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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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200 words

Once upon a time¦
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20. On the Cusp...

New Year's Eve. Hm.
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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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Matryoshka

200 words.

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