Cherrypicked stories
Diamonds
You laughed at my love of glitter, sparkle, shimmer and shine...
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- 873 reads
Lost
Recurring nightmares cloud my mind With images and thoughts unkind The blackest night, the coldest day Ghosts that never fall away They follow me, I...
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- 192 reads
Cassie and Gerald.
Want to relive those halcyon days of your golden youth&;#063; Don't bother.
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- 435 reads
Inertia kills
At a yet another meeting instigate controversy argue meaninglessly counter provoke antagonise engage in fruitless interaction stir it up introduce...
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- 1143 reads
A - Chapter One
Comfort and Happiness 1 An inch-thick finger of wood props the window open and a scowling wind upsets the net curtains as the first light of day...
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- 299 reads
After the marmalade
The day started well with marmalade and ended with a shattered foot.
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The Price of Patriotism
how the indian security perosnnel are being used by politicians, media and others
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- 594 reads
Holiday Snaps
HOLIDAY SNAPS The brass bell didn't used to offend Jamie Roberts. It was fun in a being-whacky-at-work kind of a way. After a couple of months, he...
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- 764 reads
Battle of the Blair's
A political exchange
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- 493 reads
Chintz
Chintz She opened the door, Her face as hard and lined as slate. I smiled - She didn't. 'We saw the sign and wondered? do you have rooms?' 'Yes, I...
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- 214 reads
Chintz
Chintz She opened the door, Her face as hard and lined as slate. I smiled - She didn't. 'We saw the sign and wondered? do you have rooms?' 'Yes, I...
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- 181 reads
Barn
Robert sat on top of the garden wall, looking over at the field. The old barn looked dark and forbidding alone at the edge of the field, next to the...
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- 1594 reads
Field
The field could be anything they wanted it to be. It could be a football pitch, a lonesome prairie, an alien planet, an unexplored jungle, a...
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- 1289 reads
Dead Leaves
We were walking together deep in the countryside. It was a bright, but chilly, autumn day. The wind was blowing, twisting the dead leaves into the...
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- 1312 reads
Young shoot
Whenever I go out to the yard at work his eyes trail a question catching my attention. Then he takes my crates, stacks them for me. "What's your...
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- 659 reads
SLOW MINDMELT
A mind is a terrible thing to melt!
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- 435 reads
F - Rise of the Ancestors
Opening extract from horror/SF novella set in neo-industrial Japan - edited
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- 1433 reads
In San Francisco
As I walk the bridge the sun setting turning Alcatraz orange this city is a beehive buzzed up stinging itself crawling through the Mission finding...
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- 1438 reads
Mud Pie's Revenge
MUD PIE'S REVENGE Joshua Preece unbuttoned his Agnes B shirt and dropped it onto the tiled bathroom floor. He looked at his white fat stomach. He...
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- 1106 reads