Cherrypicked stories
The Child-Catcher
On the beach, with her palms spread like a prayer book she awaits her son's arrival. The beach is a wet towel; the sky gestates. The boy is not a meteor.
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- 1329 reads
This is Why the English Invented Cricket
unable to quite make out the second hand turning like a rack's winch
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- 1845 reads
Browsing Russian Brides on the Internet
Ulyana was his first choice she reminded him of a table dancer he knew from the 80s
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- 1510 reads
Amazing Dog in River Drama
You be hard pushed to say whether Minto was more amazing before or after the incident. Whether dragging to the surface of a murky little ecosystem a child, its asthma medication and a long-lost Roman artifact
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- 1288 reads
We, the Settlers
We, the settlers, trekking behind the covered wagons of time, rattle the hours in pockets of loose moments, that can hold only so much in a day. We want more for next week, next year, always in search
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- 1189 reads
the Dress
A dress is a line that fits a shape
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- 920 reads
Palendrome
With the left I pull poems apart With the right I win decisions.
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- 1537 reads
Brazil v Ghana from Sao Borja (I think) 27 June 2006
A strange trip to Brazil and the exit of our Australia...
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- 1636 reads
I Walk East All Day
I will find chips of green glass worn round as coins, coves made porous by fingers of spume, husks of strange creatures.
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- 1474 reads
You Remembered All The Details
we could have sat anywhere
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- 891 reads
We Weren't As We Thought - Were We?
how we never got it right
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- 879 reads
Loner
Loner, behind the wall, curtain, veil, screen or dream - he is sitting as quiet as the furniture, quieter. .
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- 2974 reads
The Tiger Unravelled
After the fireworks, the red ghosts began our parade, horns and hooves clacking like those of the King of Goats. Belching fire, they vanished, replaced by goblins twirling green fish like scaly balloons above heads.
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- 911 reads
Dating the Milky Bar Kid
Just for the record, I don't endorse Nestle. They are evil stains.
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- 1491 reads
The Freeway (for my Brother)
The dreamtime freeway Flat snakes across the Bounty of New Jersey From the sleepy hollow of Where you live To the cartoon canyons and Celluloid streets of the city You visit for dinner Or art, the city hall that
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- 1322 reads
vegan teething trouble...
I buy organic carrots simmer them in olive oil mash them till they are soft watch as he takes the spoon and flicks orange sweetness onto the floor until his bowl is empty. I will do the same tomorrow
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- 742 reads
Cock Sure
It's just one of those things. How it starts. How it ends. Splices of time.
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- 4549 reads
For one day only
For one day only I'm on holiday, outside the Forum in Norwich I am sun drunk, watching Henman on a ten foot screen serve up shit. Peruvian pan pipes playing 'the sound of silence' switch to Phil Collins and I joke about being British
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- 1290 reads
Argentina v Mexico from Posadas 25 June 2006
Back on the road - but the Argentinians prove to be a strange crew...
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- 1417 reads