Cherrypicked stories

We row the boat swiftly way past the fingers of midnight her tumbledown hair a black sea breezily lapping my thigh before the storm i dive for pearls...

Extract from the novel 'The Cypriot' by Andreas Koumi

When a youthful dagger falls upon wizened Duncan, When a Portland beggar licks clam chowder from the asphalt, When the primeval iguana lashes out his tongue and seizes a sun-dazed butterfly, When a thoughtless parrot fish, with a beautiful maroon beak, hacks a coral meal from the reef, When blood has liquor and liquor has blood and teeth, When the Castillian architect dreams in pressure and support beams, When Trader Dick slashes prices on tuna, When the million-dollar putt falls prey to a gnat, Tell me, friend, what do you call that?

One of the packing house guys, a white boy, is going to take a beating in order to join a black gang. The guys in the office are discussing his upcoming beating from different perspectives. Adult theme and humor.

What a famous baseball player's autograph means to 3 different people.

Study of two characters with some internal musing.

One night what I was doing was, I was sitting at my living room table, having a drink. It was very late and there was very little else to do. The...

The mother cat finally pulled out all the kittens.

an old, old lady.