Cherrypicked stories
I Nearly Became A Forklift Truck Driver
I nearly became a forklift truck driver. Always prepare for interviews. I didn't.
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The Game
A Therapist tries an unusual method to help a patient open up.
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The Hamster Diaries 3
In which hamsters are named
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Honey on rocks
Light, water, honey
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String Theory
A poem about memories, and how they can tumble out at you sometimes.
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Words Will Not Suffice
I write to you. Thesaurus (lexicon) in hand, I backtrack over each word (utterance) by chosen (preferred) word (declaration),
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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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