Cherrypicked stories
Friday 6th October
I've been reading 'The Seas Around Us'. Conscious that it's a history book now and may have been disproved by boring scientists with no romance in their souls, but I love the story of how the moon was created.
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Thursday 5th October
In the expansive shrinking, it's good to keep the eyes peeled and wear warm clothing.
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- 1201 reads
The Wind Outside
Sonnety sonnety sonnety goodness.
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- 852 reads
Wednesday 4th October
Are we women programmed to take umbrage? To misunderstand what a man thinks is a gentle thought
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The Night of the Funeral
200 words.
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- 2383 reads
Death in slow voices
1 New moon, face-down, drowning or crescent: an arthritic knotted finger, furiously wagging or full: a scream for the sun's remote fire , Munch's envy in limbo. 2 in the dead of the night I wake in a nightmare
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- 1615 reads
Low Rise Jeans In a High Rise in Peckham - A Modern Day Nursery Rhyme
A Modern Day Nursery Rhyme Low rise jeans In a Peckham high rise In a bucket Of fried convenience Her fingers drip In East Street gold Future heirlooms If all been told To her newborn son
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Henry
200 words. It used to be a longer piece, which I posted here years ago before I was lib. Just in case anyone remembers it and thinks I've shamelessly ripped it off...
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- 1564 reads
Nail Varnish
Under 500 ~~~ The once clear varnish has turned the colour of toenails, chalky and yellowed. And if she were to open it, tugging on the shiny black cap that is stuck and extract the brush moulded into an eyelash, it would hang, suspended in an infinite tear. She doesn't pick it up, but she knows if she did, slipping it carelessly into her palm, it would leave behind a perfect circle in the dust.
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Escaping into the Sea
Escaping into the Sea The horses are talking again, she whispers, spinning their shouts like droplets from lank manes, and always at night. Her voice rises again: like an ocean, she says,
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October 3rd
There are two tricks to successfully surrendering to the expansion of letting your world shrink. One is to build in some daily exercise and the other is to not let your brain shrink along with it.
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- 928 reads
My Heroic Self Is Disappointed.
200 words
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Sacred Shirts
I had this delivery job one time.
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- 2440 reads
8 Prawns
I need 8 prawns from the nets -
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Throwing Stars
You fat, presiding gasballs, masking as prophetic lights. You crowbars, who have snaked between us, cosmic gremlins that loosen bolts, saw apart dovetails and hurl us to separate, snagged-off limbs of land. Had I
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Monday October 2nd 2006
There is such magic in stopping trying to make things happen. It's the only way to, well, make things happen.
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- 1327 reads