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Day 16

Pila It's raining again. It hasn't stopped since I got back from Farlan Street that day. As if I don't stay indoors enough, it seems the weather wants me out of trouble altogether. My shower this morning was the first in two weeks, and all the better as a result. Flushing the grease out of my hair and replacing it with jojoba and NutriVite molecules (so the bottle informed me) was another pleasure to add to the list. The list that is weakening significantly in effectiveness with each day that passes.
Cherry

Day 15

Miffy "What do you mean, cut off? "I did warn you Mif. "But I should have been paid. The money would have been in my account! The direct transfer should have gone through as normal, fuckdammit.
Cherry

Adam - 14th Birthday

bouquets
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Niqab

200 words.
Cherry

Love-in-a-mist

When you are gone I walk the hills in the changing robes of fog without letup, pick the last love-in-a-mist, tell my sadness to the careless eyes of dusk. When night falls, I hasp my windows fast against
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Derek Hargreaves Enquires

He's got a flat cap and glasses and he knows where you live he says you've vandalized a phonebox even though you're thirty-six He knows where your Mum works and all your unclean desires he puffs on his pipe, nods knowingly
Cherry

Dear Mrs. Hamza

I am the lad who killed your son Kuwait 1991 he had no time to parry his hands were not loath and cold for me and my mate Barry if the truth be told we gave him no chance when he put up his hands
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Home for Christmas

200 words.
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So

Contrasts
Cherry

New York

Pedalling a freewheel of thought, A cabaret of icons You stand across the water from Hoboken, a glittering knife
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Day 03

1771.1 Longwave You've just been listening to Sell Shendrick and the Rubles with "What's My Name? (You Ate My Brain)". Classic slice of note-perfect nourishment for your ears. Well that seems to be all for tonight, folks. Thank you for tuning in, and for God's sake, get some sleep or some drugs. Here to play us out are The Carpettes with "Wrap Me In Paper". Stay slutty. It keeps the population rocketing.
Cherry

Friday 3rd Nov 2006

Everything has it's place. Even seagulls. Not so sure about journalists though.
Cherry

Day 02

Miffy I have ten fingers and ten toes, all of which were arrested at the age of eight and ordered to freeze. My limbs still bear a gnat's purse of baby fat apiece and my running is a toddle at best. My belly is firm and round like an oversized brioche loaf, my belly button a white choc chip nestling below a flatland. My chest would be the first thing below sea level if this second Ice Age would ever make up its mind about whether it's on its way or not.
Cherry

The Little Venice, Lebanese restaurant

Speed poem about the cafe near the British Library where I get my lunch.
Cherry

Trick or Treat

200 words.
Cherry

Snorkeler Down, High Adventure in the Yucatan Peninsula

And now, as you stand there splitting two worlds, high upon the aching shoulders of the void, what is behind you is everything you have ever done, your whole life, and ahead of you, glaring up at you, the abyss in the eye of a fish as big as the world and unknown and futureless and uneaten and unloved and all that other stuff and the difference is her, a few breaths between right now and never again, a few dumb breaths between two worlds, just one last swim she said, and as you stand there a voice reaches over from the dead world behind you and all that's gone before, and asks you if you need some help.
Cherry

Appeal

They put up the yellow sign within hours of the accident. It was a serious accident, apparently, at 1:30am on the tenth of this month. Witnesses sought; a phone number given. Somebody, please help me.
Cherry

1914-18 Camelford Road, Bristol

The confectionery of our lives...

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