Cherrypicked stories
The Tree House
Growing up with a stone up your nose.
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- 1326 reads
A Wee World For Wee Ones
A boy falls down a hole in the ground and ends up in a fantastic world so different to anything we can ever imagine .
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- 2241 reads
Four Letters
A story in four letters
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- 1668 reads
Times Like These
written to The Killers' Mr Brightside.
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- 1209 reads
Cashier Number Two Please
Stephanie falls in love with the man in her bank, but will he rescue her from cheating Dave?
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- 1176 reads
Shoulder Blade
there's a scene in LOTR's Return of The King, where Gandalf sees a little moth fluttering in front of him, and warns him that the eagles are coming. it's one of my all time favourite moments because of its magic and simplicity.
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- 1772 reads
Advance
So I said to him Clive I said Clive I can earn three K just picking my arse. This book doesn't get out of bed for less than seven figures. It's a...
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- 2146 reads
Classmates - Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of my first novel 'Classmates' - the tale of a girl who goes back to the 80s
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- 522 reads
Today this day
Lyrics from 'The Boy with the arab strap,' by Belle and Sebastian. Today is the day, and for many including him there is no other day?today is the day they will have recurring for the rest of their lives. Today this day? is their only day.
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- 1784 reads
Work Diary 6/10/05
Work Diary, 6/10/05 A couple of things that put me back in the saddle, at least briefly: 1. Driving to work the other morning, I spotted a baguette...
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- 921 reads
Darwin's Sway
Fictional story about Sydney nightlife
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- 589 reads
stages
For Rachel my sister who keeps on trying
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- 1619 reads
Sea Poem
Cowrie shells like gnocchi on the shore Are sloshing saline mouthwash with each wave. And waves are white-tipped fingernails that claw At starfish...
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- 646 reads
Influenza
Dances in snuffly sleep-breath, spritely in grey robes, jostling air. She paints you geisha-white and punts your bloodstream, a Boadicea battling...
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- 599 reads
Elephants
I look beneath the portico, your legs, and see your baby in their frame, munching on a branch. She has a rough and wrinkled rind, her knees are...
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- 619 reads
City Scapes
?People up there think you?re a myth,? I say. "Oh, you don?t want to believe everything you hear," says Dillon
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- 1642 reads
Beware of Bandits
Caligula was brought down!
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- 1300 reads