Cherrypicked stories
Ramekin
A speed poem using the word ramekin
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Playing Piano - edited version
A reworking of an old story. Beware, it is 3,800 words long.
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- 1117 reads
Of Fish and Water
I catch myself in a yawn on the elevator down to the ground floor of my dormitory. I woke up this morning laying on the floor, holding a pack of fruit gushers, and wearing my room mates underwear. That's your basic college blackout. Everyone else here is looking for the same thing; a release from the academic pressure. With my newly showered body and groggy demeanor I would have fit right in a few hours ago. I say a few hours ago, because right at the moment it's about half past one. There's an English class I'm supposed to be in haste to attend but I have a little cloud named hangover floating above me.
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Parah Adumah
In the fields the red heifer hangs her dour head.
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Virginia Woolf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West
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Bad Hunch
You have been hit by a bus again.
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- 1157 reads
Ink
The ink flows down my page, my parchment, my vellum.
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There Are Risks Associated With Eating Out
We'll go out for dinner, he says
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16. Light on the Subject...
Tuesday Night at The Hippodrome. By invitation only. Me, Sherlock, Yoyo, Billy, a 4-pack apiece, Billy's cock-eyed snooker table, a couple of Sherlock's funny fags, Bruce's Lucky Town in good crackly vinyl on one of Billy's old stereograms¦ ¦tonight I'm steppin' lightly and feelin' no pain¦ Cookin'.
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Nine One One
A friend of mine was asleep, two blocks away, they call them blocks, and he woke up and screamed at the window because it was so loud, the sirens mostly, the sirens sounded like the apocalypse, whatever that would sound like,
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Cold kisses
I pound my plush pillow until I feel cosy enough to lay my head. 'What are you doing back there?' my mum asks, turning to examine me again. 'You nestle like a kitty.' I wonder if there is anything I can do without her comments. The air in the car is already stuffy and we just begun our journey. I'm trapped in the car and will be trapped for the whole night -we will arrive in Croatia in the morning. So I accept my fate and decide to get some sleep. I'm still small enough to outstretch my legs on the backseat of my father's car. He drives, mum sometimes releases coffee steam from the thermos. The smell nicely ousts the frowst for a few moments.
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- 1399 reads
Just Put A Coin In My Mouth
From "The Emperor's Babe" by Bernadine Evaristo.
Coming Home
I moved home, bleakly packing my belongings into blue bins and black garbage bags. He met me at the corner, his picked-clean arms grabbing the bins' handles and slocking them into
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- 505 reads
A Honda Civic and a whole lot of Mocha
Everything I thought and felt goes out the front door and into a Honda civic while I sit on the front steps wondering what the hell happened.
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- 1006 reads
Spooky Action at a Distance
No prizes for working out where I got the idea.
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Instantly, you remind me
Instantly, you remind me of a train wreck.
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I Said I Like Poems Best
Sultanganj Buddha
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Waiting For The Greyhound Bus
inspired by Judy Grahn's Love Rode 1500 Miles (thanks Eddie)
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The sea gull
It was only part white; the sea gull that swooped down on us nearly brushing us with its wings ' but in my head I saw this ghost of a bird, shadowless, a white absence, blind negative in the light of the lake. No reflection glides
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