Cherrypicked stories
Content and Container
Plain fucking awful, this propless play. Such advances: anatomically correct plugs, cosmetically tested lube, booting spit or piss and fist or microphone and broom into space. And we lie here:
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- 1079 reads
The love nest
Joy came to him far from memories, where sea gulls, lost in flight, crossed the dusk between wind and rain, the rocks and the sand and the loneliness of the cliffs.
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- 1503 reads
Errata: Twenty-Fourth Episode: Theatre of War
And I got to my feet, my wounds winking shut.
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- 1035 reads
Buddhist Class
It is hard to feel enlightened When last night's peas are doing the rumba In your lower gut And you can't pronounce the name Of your leader: Mah-tru-dah-shu Mih-tra-din-she Moh-tru-don-sha
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- 1129 reads
Harboil: Part II
The thing is: if you stand here long enough you’ll eventually be cordoned off.
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- 1455 reads
Lipstick Coffin Nail
Gin, Roses, and a Hell of a Hangover.
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- 1790 reads
Expansion Pack
Experience a fully interactive environment: millions of textures, new objects introduced daily. Authentic physical phenomena, including gravity, behaviour of light on water, autumnal colouration
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- 1351 reads
Black Eyed Susan
Two days out of treatment and a walk in the garden.
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- 2530 reads
Pursuit
Hunted, by you, all over town, like debt collection was savage. Your hair. Your legs. Underpinned by wine, in overdraft bars. Name dropping, like breathing. Insecurity, laid bare.
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- 1551 reads
Images
Memory takes motion and freezes it. Each moment captured and held, there, a picture on the gallery wall. Here's where those moments will all end. Here's the last picture, where she turns
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- 2369 reads
this is how we would say goodbye
an acrostic fashioned from soba noodles spelling out s-e-e y-a with the first word being serendipity which was also a film starring John Cusack. Or- a capoiera sequence
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- 1029 reads
Art will Save the World
200 words.
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- 4701 reads
The Summerhouse
In time, Manda managed to forget a great deal. But she would never forget those eyes.
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- 2648 reads
Tony
I stay where I am when I see Tony come into the bar, standing by the optics with a tea towel in my hand. Tom turns his back and starts polishing cutlery. He's worked here for longer than I have.
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- 1403 reads
Week
Imagine if the sky cracked open like a cheap plate and through the cracks seeped tiny coach-horses topped by even tinier men and the tinier men held aloft scripted banners
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- 1005 reads