Cherrypicked stories
A judge of character
How wrong can one be.
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- 1951 reads
Henry Miller at Denny's
Too Long In California
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- 1572 reads
Rockets
"The planes came at nine," he said. "At two in the morning I buried my son. Then we left." "They warned us what was going to happen but we had no...
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- 880 reads
You Can't Have It All.
2nd best - Better than nothing at all &;#063;
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- 989 reads
Metaphors and Similes
Johnny's vision through narcotic headlamp eyes see; a dole queue like a urine stream with drained bodies like wrung swimsuits, therapist's comfort...
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- 2887 reads
S(h)OCKS
How a simple clothing item can change your life.
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- 890 reads
Nowhere Near
Night's door opens you. I watch. Disembodied by distance a want haunts me: how you touch me and never touch me. In the past, this was enough. Now it...
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- 902 reads
Midnight Mystery
a ghost story...
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- 972 reads
Poet At 12 O'Clock
You say you're "always falling over with little glimpses of what it might be like to stand up." I think it's more to do with your being on the brink...
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- 911 reads
FUNERAL OF YOUTH
Unwanted Memories of Aga's grave
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- 4026 reads
Holding on by a hand
Actually, who do I know but the person weeding deep in the woods pawing at melancholy dirt old dry dirt dirt in search of a pagan wiccan explosion of...
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- 899 reads
Alternative Lifestyles
pallid, meek used to myself in supposition my feet are bare and make the greatest sense hobnobbing with tundra; the little flows in my wintered shelf...
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- 915 reads
My old friend Winter
Good bye summer
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- 827 reads
Madam Vanerre's Shuffle
a story about a generation gap
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- 932 reads
God Is Like Paul Daniels
God Is Like Paul Daniels (Now there's a horrible thought) By Mark Cantrell Get out of my light, God, You're spoiling my view. Go sit in the corner,...
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- 907 reads
Xerx's Bombshell
Like correcting a spelling error in Microsoft Word with a lightning fast click or removing money from one's own debit account, lies are really fast...
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- 921 reads
Wee Sammy
Wee Sammy Preparation for work was religiously thorough. It involved the consumption of one bottle of Buckie, two cans of Breaker Malt Liquor and a...
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- 931 reads
Dog Food
The author would like to stress that no animals were harmed during the writing of this story
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- 868 reads