Cherrypicked stories

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Trial Period

Lady Chatterbee's gardener.
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Number 4 My Lovely Life

That I get how lucky I am.
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Silver Surfer

Then something escapes the grassblade lips that could press coins and his board comes to him like a waterfall to its pool.
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Number 2 Sausage, Egg and Chips

There are few things better for joining the soul with the body than sausage, egg and chips in a beachfront café. The wilder the weather, the better.
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The Charm Bracelet

It was the sound it made that first attracted me. Not quite a jingle, more substantial than that, more seductive. It was the sound of cocktail hour. A sound that winked 'look at me'. The sound of the kind of jewellery that does your flirting for you.
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Waiting To Be Made

Speed prose that I hope to make into something...
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The Dee and Me

Mathematics is purer than chemistry.
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Lee's Experiment

God will have his day, it's just not in Lee's lifetime.
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004 Just Relax

One for the girls.
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The Secret Life of Chairs

Viciously, then I lock the door
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She Loves him more in Death than Life.(edited).

In later years they sat across a wide divide, Dutch fireside dolls glaring enmity Identical armchairs fading day by day. She loved him better in death than life. Waking suddenly from afternoon doze,
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Coup D'Etat of the Dead

(Rewritten this one. Didn't like previous attempt.) I was not in an office when the doors to so many were broken down and tramped through like bracken, when the dead came hacking like crones, hacking like children through overgrown gardens.
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curtains

Rest in peace? I should be so lucky. To date I've had more failed suicide attempts than sexual conquests. Which in itself is reason enough to try again. I've tried every method ' from the high wire drama of bridge jumping to the anonymous leave-taking of pills. And every single try's been thwarted by friends or goddamn do-gooders. Understand. These are not cries for help. I am genuinely committed. Just monumentally unlucky.
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a taxing affair

As tax assessments go hers wasn't particularly troublesome
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Wrong

Children avoided the conker trees closest to the road, four people tripped over doors mats in Norwich, three phone lines went dead, and they were not on trains.
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If I were a shoelace

I'd come undone,
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007 Crop Circles

Mike likes beer and leaving a perfect imprint of his signet ring on Katarina's cheek.
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What If .........

Knitting Needles handn't been invented? If only I had gone to school that day what might have happened? Maybe my mother would have died and my life would be very different, maybe she still would have survived and I would never have known about all the lost babies. From that one single day my head was full of "what ifs. I managed for many years to push it to the back of mind, but just closing my eyes I can transport myself back in time.
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She tracks an Orbit

Light years from you and me, her eye to a telescope, she tracks an orbit and discovers a spiral galaxy.
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Wanderlust

Imagine. You die in a foreign country. For all the world you're just A little wheezy

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