Cherrypicked stories
Darwin's Sway
Fictional story about Sydney nightlife
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- 591 reads
stages
For Rachel my sister who keeps on trying
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- 1628 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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- 650 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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- 601 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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- 624 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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- 1667 reads
Beware of Bandits
Caligula was brought down!
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- 1326 reads
Husband Swap
The perils awaiting novice swingers
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- 36686 reads
Journal Beltane 2005
Beltane 30th April, 1st May 2005 A year since I started my garden. Where did the time go? Wherever it is, my enthusiasm went with it. I have a...
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- 1283 reads
Rainbow Fade
My mother told me over toast it was the first news for years i acted all nonchalant but really melted like butter how time can ache us my debut girl...
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- 1504 reads
Lithium Rose
This drug she has to take to make things better it creeps through blood to her mind a fizzing sherbet tablet trying to erase yesterday but she...
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- 1384 reads
Hansel &; Gretel
A cutting investigative story of what really happened with Hansel, Gretel and the wicked witch. Was her house really made out of sweets? Some people have doubted those claims, but now the truth is finally revealed.
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- 372 reads
Beloved
Since the air today has been cold, the tiled floor radiates chill. I remember blue warmth rustling in this silent space. I doubt that the steps you made across this cool floor remain. I would collect your imprints.
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- 1753 reads
My Life Oy Vay (DIARY OF A MAD DRUNK BASTARD) 1
Diary of a drunkard.
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- 5511 reads
Swallow
Swallow The tale that I will endeavour to relate to you took place one day in very late summer somewhere in England's middle lands. It was a day in...
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- 861 reads