Cherrypicked stories
An Anti-Christmas Rant
Baah humbug to Christmas and nuts to Noel I'm sick of the traffic and shopping is Hell The glittery tinsel gets right up my nose And so do the cards...
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- 725 reads
At The End Of The Season
Eleven milky leather chairs engulf the full stretch of the room, soaking up the ringing stab of heels on marble. At five am, she picks her way...
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- 277 reads
X/ ARCTIC SUMMER.
Liquid low's of a manic depressive.
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- 664 reads
Madonna's Cake
Guy slowly lent down to his new bride and said, said so softly only they could hear, 'cake'. Madonna looked up and made a puzzled look, not at that...
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- 275 reads
Lazarus Letter
Life is short...or is it&;#063;
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- 340 reads
October
Now is the time to find and cut wild wood and build a fire, the first since spring matured to emerald summer, daylong sun which could heat my rooms,...
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- 323 reads
Kissing the plate
We were taught today the trick of a stage embrace. 'Imagine you are kissing a plate,' our teacher said. And I can see the wisdom of the ruse:...
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- 280 reads
A merchant's wedding portrait
Once, my fears were piracy and storms, My fever in Java, monstrous sloping seas. Now, dressed in wealth I do not care for And earth-bound in my house...
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- 318 reads
Those Eyes
An old soul you have, quiet and wise Hidden in youth, but I see in those eyes
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- 1232 reads
Midnight&;#8217;s Children by Salman Rushdie
Rushdie's complex but fascinating tale of Saleem and his family is inextricably intertwined with India's troublesome history. Saleem, born on the...
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- 497 reads
A for " The Autumn of a Life"
An old man seeing the season of spring in children.
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- 160 reads
Heartland
Heartland - A boy wandered out into the heartland one day, came out of the horizon on a long flat road surrounded by cornfields and telephone lines...
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- 346 reads
Sam and the Sparrow
Sam and the Sparrow Cat, unusually quick, brought you your first taste of wild bird and down the line you described the mouse-sized sac of liquid in...
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- 595 reads
Lux
Lux listening to the smooth graze of my Grandad's voice, the melancholy grumble, the geordie ramble, the rise and swell of grainy memory which laps...
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- 516 reads
Glint
Glint She opened her mouth in a smile and her brace was a silvery multiplex showing my face. Walking towards me, a swing of the hip, a peach-and...
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- 572 reads