Cherrypicked stories
Blackberry and Apple Jam
You said the perfume's to die for;
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Nights Out With Remus
Another bad boyfriend
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- 1154 reads
The Girl That Could Fly
The Girl That Could Fly Clarity can be difficult to work with, and as Silvia stared out of her economy seat window, she found it hard not to scream. Obscuring the light was the face of a demon, its features long and drawn, bones growing in sharp ridges along its face and tugging painfully at the skin. Eyes of winter blue stared piercingly back at her, blonde hair pulled long and straight by the wind, it appeared to cling onto the side of the plane. Silvia looked to the middle-aged businessman with his gut hanging out and his hair cut short in admission of loss. He stared intensely into his laptop screen as he played cards. Silvia searched around to see if anyone else had seen, then fearfully returned her gaze to the window.
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Formalities
Surprised by a visit from the tea-black priest with white-white teeth, who yarred about God, with seedlings of sweat on his forehead while our bags were rifled through for 'contraband' and we three squatted at the roadside.
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Write to Romance (short story pub. in 2000 'Urban Scrawl')
It was no good. Jessica couldn't stop herself. Her eyes scoured the room again - where was he? A gentle cough from somewhere high behind her, made her turn and bam! Their eyes locked.
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When does it stop
Something i forced myself to write... i have no idea if it's any good... pleeeease let me know! (will be edited soon)
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Set
went next door to talk to Winston he dealt some cards and brought out the brandy and told me about his greyhounds.
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Three Haikus about Spring
I saw daffodils being trampled by a boy.
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Anemones are coy
The night after I had been dreaming of tropical fish in eighties corporate fishtanks, I woke up with my skull as tight as a buoy. I spent the day bobbing between bed and toilet bowl, throwing up with tidal regularity.
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A Philosophical Thing
another story about death and family
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Pub Whisper
A bag lady takes the last seat at a table. She asks for a light, profers cigarettes but no one there is a smoker.
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They couldn't stop tickling each other
When they ate out they had one rule - they were not allowed to order for themselves
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Camilla (edited)
Okay, I listened to all the comments, and came out with something a little different.
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Put me in your pocket
A speed poem
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How To Walk On Water
It was April in June; spring's very own month of non-stop decadence two months overdue. All of the trees, and all of the tangled roots and shoots below them, were erupting in a lusty chorus of wind-tickled new growth, the tick-tock of dandelion clocks and (if you listened carefully) the provocative ripening of stickybuds...
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The Golden Egg
At The Golden Egg, a cafe, where ugly folk eat all day breakfasts, we sip, smoke, read The Mirror, The Sun, take notes in reams.
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Jellyfish gurgle through the watercooler
A villanelle
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Death's Uneasy Alliance.(or pull up a Pew)
Death didn't look up to much today; in fact he looked positively wilted. His black suit needed pressing, the crisp white shirt in need of some starch and his tie was drooping at half-mast. 'Care for a snifter, matey?' I asked casually, knowing his temper was unreliable at best and earth shaking at it's its worst.
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