Cherrypicked stories
What want mooring
What want mooring They went home and locked the home gate they went home and did the washing up and at tea time when mum said because I am in a boat having a hard time we have dog for dinner
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- 2170 reads
The god loss
The god loss Remember the little god who stood up to sleep, strolled across lawns mimicking ducks. They say he beat back books, charged per syllable with
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- 1247 reads
Apples and cheese
Apples and cheese I wouldn’t make much of a ploughman given I don’t like apples or cheese. In bed I’d unshirt him enjoy all the things and then like beer off a dog’s lip
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- 1984 reads
An Apology for a Class
Poor Inez puts up with a lot...
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- 2084 reads
Of mice and not men
You might need to know something aboutthe 12 steps.
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- 1497 reads
What It Is... (Scene 2)
Next bit. Any comments gratefully received!
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- 5755 reads
Just Eight Lines
The finger of creation.
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- 1281 reads
Some Drones
A waitress encounters a man lost in a story, but who's story is it?
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- 2255 reads
Fountains
Fountains light the sound of gardens in twinkle plink pink pink make baths for birdsong and fall down drunken steps in a joyous white unfurling
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- 1356 reads
The New Confessions
IPOW - May offend, possibly.
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- 1711 reads
Humiliation
The old woman had her.
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- 2758 reads
Poetical Science
The twenty-first century – what a wondrous place! Where no one is judged by their creed, sex or race Where technology makes our lives sprightly and gay Isn’t the world looking sciency today?
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- 900 reads
George Aligayah
enunciates every word whenever he is alone, "The Queen is Dead."
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I Love Everything About You
This is the Prologue from my collection of short stories, "Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love", which is available from Amazon and other bookshops. For more info please visit www.richardbardsley.net
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- 6014 reads
The Whole Truth
...or some of it.
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- 2026 reads
what isn't happening
I like it when an unrequited love visits me in my dreams I get to hold her and that even get naked with her which is nice but, we never you know actually do it do the do do the sex
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- 3187 reads
What It Is
First scene of a stage play. An average day in a Council Drop In Centre...
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- 5520 reads
The Cuckoo’s Nest
Am I here because of the madness within, or was I infected by this place?
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- 4093 reads
The Ploughman's Apprentice
He dropped the skull and jumped backwards, shuddering at the sight of its grinning jaws and earth-filled eye sockets…
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- 1235 reads
Catching the train
With Christmas and New Year celebrations out of the way she was determined that she had to take this journey.
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- 2578 reads