Cherrypicked stories
The Fridge
A short story about the fridge that never killed me.
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- 2015 reads
Doing a Corporate
2 co-workers are ill-met at a New Year's Eve Corporate celebration
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- 1004 reads
Secret Messages
He leaves the phone cradle Turtle-flipped beside a biro Doodle of fire To remind her Of the night they sat Wang-eyed on a see-saw And kids set some bins alight Near the far railings.
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- 1002 reads
Pale and Ignorant
A long exhalation of air, laden, worrisome. A sound in the dark. Two figures le, one sleeps,
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- 1159 reads
Dreams: Monday to Friday.
Monday: I am scoring anti-capitalist slogans on a Coke billboard at the back of London Road market whilst supping a Sprite. My geography teacher points out that Sprite
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- 1331 reads
Deep Soul Treasure
A friend said today. That I have to split love. Between, a reason, a season, or forever. I'd never heard that before. But it makes a sense. Although it's still raw. I think of her,
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- 1422 reads
In
In The women are armed with brochures but I don’t want to walk down that street, to where the post box waits for me with its lips baby bell split, inviting wanting.
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- 1277 reads
Mabel takes Roxy
Handbags at dawn as two mini media types meet over the magazines
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- 1028 reads
Goodbye to Jane
Goodbye to a real hero.
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- 1329 reads
Noah's Story
Part 3 of my story The Solitude of Fireflies.
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- 698 reads
Theatre Toilet Tale
Backstage back chat with a toilet cleaner of theatreland, working through personal resentment during a Summer Season
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- 944 reads
Illusion
Follow up of Birdman, found under my collection entitles "The Solitude of Fireflies"
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- 791 reads
Flavia's Full Fat Granita
Swift coffee in an internet cafe sparks a domestic.
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- 2292 reads
B & Q
And we have whisked down We are redecorating We are upholstering We are shelving We are slopping paint onto walls Mine is Russian Velvet She can't decide between Laguna Landscape
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- 2380 reads
The Phantom of Ravenscar
They never found her body. One would think that, High on a bleak, treeless headland Finding a girl’s body would be easy But nobody ever saw Adelaida again Some think that the ravens
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- 1519 reads
Last Thought To Pimlico
To her. He was one of those days. An unpaid bill. Spilling blood on his sold life. He took the wrong turning, into her chocolate coated eyes. She melts away now. He sucks her wrapper.
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- 1635 reads