Cherrypicked stories

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Quiet Road.....................................25

Sound of the asphalt lorry beeping its reverse all day on the road outside fills my head. I get up in the middle of the tarry night - write again of...
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Somewhere In There

I see you falling as if in slow motion And crash heavily on the unyielding ground And I am filled with a special devotion To the person within I...
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Somewhere In There

I see you falling as if in slow motion And crash heavily on the unyielding ground And I am filled with a special devotion To the person within I...
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Tea with the Devil

A young English woman meets her husband's uncle in apartheid South Africa
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Adoration

Adoration "What did you say?" bellowed the shopkeeper. He was a big man. His voice seemed to rumble up from his belly, bang into all the walls and...
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N. Autumn come she will

Autumn came to visit me today she glanced at me in the mirror, as a walked by. She never spoke she just looked at me, as the crow came to perch on...
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Metalgeissen

You guys changed my life and I love ya!
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Angel and the Elk

Every time I go to sleep it's 1975 again...
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Lil

An old woman in a hostel trying to help a young lady.
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F A Technical Hitch

A ghost is trapped in a computer
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I Lost key

A first date goes horribly wrong
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Watcher

Watcher Autumn, the quietening down of life, Patient, docile, led meekly to the kill. Infused with the chill smoke of bonfires and over ripe fruits,...
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Nicked car karma

I nicked the blokes motor
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Potholes and Speed

Bankrupt trucker on a white-knuckle ride
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Never one for the road

I was never one for the road you know
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Verarbeitet

A normal day in a normal office job&;#063;
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Rapunzels' Daughter

You are the everchanging sword in my soul, The flowering in my eye. The summit of strange vitriol, And love, that is our tie. You are the armpit, The...
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RUGS: Carpet Colony

Those things we sweep under the rug
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H - Giant Aspirations

Don't interrupt the story. Or you'll have to reckon with Miss Braithwaite.
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On the Beach

extract from The Last Days in Magendo, a novel

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