Cherrypicked stories
Naive, Once Seventeen
A look back, on what once was.
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- 1850 reads
This Is Crispin
This poem is a univocalism, which means it only uses one vowel throughout. In this case 'i'. This is one of the forms employed by those wacky chaps at Oulipo, ouvrir de literature potentiale.
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- 2164 reads
Asking after Thomas.
There was a message on my answerphone from Jem. Terry was dead. The funeral was on Thursday.
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- 1320 reads
Briefs Encounter
Trainspotting and kinky sex, as suggested by a writing exercise! I don't need to copyright this one, do I?
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- 1795 reads
After Seeing a Few Italian Maids Crush Grapes with their Feet
I watched Maria and Maria and Maria together form out with their feet the perfect drink. and as I sat and watched the lonely olive trees against the bright blue, I thought of Bacchus,
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- 1104 reads
American Vignettes (Travels in my Wigwam)
Long poem about travels across the west coast of the USA.
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- 1898 reads
Refreshments
Coming through with hot Tea, tea scorching tea, hot Poker, a branding fork that will Sizzle and spit to the bone.
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- 1190 reads
Saved by the Soil
Scavenging through the mush and coming up live, Before the water shed, with a pornographic Magazine covered in marshmallow and pork jelly.
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- 1366 reads
#11 - The Curious Incident of Bill Nighy and the England Football Team in the, er, Night-Time
In the week of David Beckham’s recall to the England squad, Bill Nighy – yes, that Bill Nighy – has felt compelled go public to express his consistent and undiminished support for his fellow nat
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- 1081 reads
Day 29 - Yawn
She stretches out on the bed, gown untied!
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- 1362 reads
DESIRE
Part of a series inspired by names of (very) small towns in the United States
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- 2505 reads
Cufflink
Julian sucks a Chicken McNugget and shrugs
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- 949 reads
Valentine's Pome
This year, in order to save on Valentine’s Day guilt, Why not put some effort into your indifference? Show her you really don’t care With a KFC bucket and warm can of Tizer.
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- 1586 reads
The Cartographer's Revenge
Cartographers are evil...
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- 3534 reads
The Witch Doctor Consults his Divorce Lawyer
The Witch Doctor Consults his Divorce Lawyer Who can say which comes first – the cane toads with their bassoons or the rainstorm? The red-faced
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- 1474 reads
The Actual Queen
You imagine an alternative life for her where she is a waitress in a checker-board pie shop, jellied eels piled up like alien spines.
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- 1475 reads
Flint
The conversation we had about patterns in leaves, in cabbages, Romanesque, the golden ratio between our finger joints
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- 1875 reads
On grinding at sixteen
Pippa and me, her three years younger and still more accustomed to vodka, wandering a field full of tents, glow sticks and bands you'd sort-of heard of and didn't feel like sweating for.
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- 1035 reads