Cherrypicked stories
Dial Tone
"In the distance, someone is crying." An experiment with Synaestesia.
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Lake Fides
How simply I learned to pause, tilt , plunge into the gravel pit on stark cobalt evenings
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before you smile again
before you smile again 14th April 2008, 10.32pm a sense of déjà vu your eyes give you away I can read you like a book I can’t put down marking the page
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The Grid
‘Three young women in as many weeks,’ says DCS Draper, ‘naked, strangled, found floating like paper boats in the canal.’ Superintendent Mercer coughs uncomfortably. ‘Four, sir.
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I Like To Move It, Move It
My supervisor’s supervisor started doling out the words ‘head office’, ‘management’ and ‘London’ like an older, popular kid with flash lollipops.
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The Common Cormorant or Shag
The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays its eggs in a paper bag, So the Puffin can be a bit of a shock, ...
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Cydonia - Two
The Second part to my longish short story, Cydonia.
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Spring Morning
I can see how it will happen on some new spring morning when the day is eager to begin in sharp sunshine and birdsong. The way you rise up, naked and free to taste the sun on the bright air
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A Rum Do
Inspiration point 11.04.08
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Arm leaves
My mother dropped a paper in the sink and all the stories sailed in on ships billowing and billowing about how we fall down and then get the grip of the rope under our feet
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Eat bees
The park couldn’t have picked a person on their way to ‘not in a hurry’ more accurately. She strolled by the trees as if her knees were olive oiled,
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Tattoos
Harry ducked under the door frame into the apartment and Katharine immediately noticed the scarring on his bare forearms; two symmetrical, swollen lines around the thicker part before each elbow.
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Something in me, I suppose, must be going blind
hacking at clumps of coal.
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His house has white brick balconies
a dad juggling wowing his daughter's friends as he catches a satsuma in his mouth.
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Cause and Affect
I have my first real-life Facebook stalker. At 65 he is younger than my previous stalker.
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Unopened letters
Some mornings come in hazy light; sun rays that flutter between the curtains and the dusty oak beams, run along the ceiling digging my eyes of blue sleepiness
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Inspiration Point 11.04.08
A revamped ode to an old teacher.
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Now a loose conglomoration of pictures in an exhibition
A Confounded Letter
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Look there's a town called misery and of that we'll have none
A Confounded Letter
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Lark ascending
was not sure - seemed to be good to be true ...
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