Cherrypicked stories

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After the Ball

Modern verse
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Jackdaw

Speed Poem
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Lib

Equal Opportunities
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My Tights Drawer

Before I put the entire contents of my life into a bin bag I decide it is worth five minutes to look through. The tights you bought me took up more...
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Z is for Hamster

My hamster. Little hamster. In his cage with little wheel. My hamster. Little hamster. Eating bits of orange peel. My hamster. Little hamster. Citrus...
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Virgin Soldiers

Don't catch the Glasgow train if there's any alternative!
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Better Half

A writing group assignment about family rivalry.
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Stream of consciousness

Centre rest clearing the benches are full, hedges are thorny and taller too. Signs are all spun around dead-ends abound, the privet blocks off every...
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A tall story

It seemed like the perfect murder....
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Shooting Nudes

or: Stripped & Shot; Ass & Aperture; Legs & Lenses; Cans & Cameras; Flesh & Flashes; Tits & Tripods; Boobs & Boots; Derriere & Development (a recollection of making the Creative Writing Society Literary Icon Naked Calendar)
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Shelter

Speed Poem
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Mapping The Heart

I find you in the library scribbling on rough paper your sad, sad map of the world. I snatch your pen draw a heart on your shirt. You recoil a loaded...
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Breakfast

At breakfast we are silent, and the sun shouts through the panes at each window. Each pass of milk, or spoon, is met without eyes. It could be said...
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Lakeland Mornings

To have the clouds below your feet
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Lifelines

How Loopy Lenny got his flat head.
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Why I know so much about limestone

I got my job here through a relation. My uncle Ron drives the front-end loader. I catch him watching me sometimes as he stands on the hood of his truck and pisses onto a pile of one-inch.
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Why I know so much about limestone

I got my job here through a relation. My uncle Ron drives the front-end loader. I catch him watching me sometimes as he stands on the hood of his truck and pisses onto a pile of one-inch.
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The Sleeping Man

grading papers, smoking pot, getting a haircut, getting a divorce...
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The Sleeping Man

grading papers, smoking pot, getting a haircut, getting a divorce...

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