Cherrypicked stories
Chocolate
Chocolates like to travel in crowds. Happiest when in a box that has been upturned, shook a little - so that they can mingle and crunch their...
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- 376 reads
Francis
Francis Again. His hand upon my thighs. Sensing his head, hair eroded, and the scar Dark red. Silver teeth. Black hole. His lips, turned up, twisted...
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- 190 reads
W) The Cows
As his mouth pulled away from hers she felt the moisture on her lips almost seem to freeze, as if the next time he touched her she would shatter into...
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- 2717 reads
Eavesdropping
You're not a writer, you're an eavesdropper!
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- 333 reads
Is that your final answer?
You can always phone a friend - if you've got one.
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- 364 reads
I - Chalk
Nothing more than an anecdote really
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- 843 reads
Reading in bed
Reading in bed. You stood me on end thumbed through my pages skipped straight to the part you'd enjoy you bent my spine. Beat, unbinding book loosely...
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- 421 reads
Mike?s First Book.
Mike's First Book. Mike was unhappy Slumping in his chair so Vandana took him out to Waterstones. Bug-eyed he watched as she selected a compact, red...
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- 421 reads
Q: 11/11/02
Work Diary, 11/11/02 My paternal grandmother was a former prostitute who lived in Freeport, Texas. Her name was Josephine French, and it would be...
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- 559 reads
Litter of leaves
In the tall trees bare twigs cannot shake off whispering whisps of suffocation; designed to keep out life's passing plastic refuses to die. Rich...
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- 642 reads
Stolen Wigs and Baseball Caps
Based on true events
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- 457 reads
Miscarriage
Submission under 'Reunion' theme
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- 505 reads
Out
tasks repeated again again as grains of sand blister my thoughts with time lost skull bone my lone frail wall I wear make up to thicken it say I'm...
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- 646 reads
Remembrance
remembrance only that summer the fens dried and baked and the combine harvesters in a dispassion of dust and wheat-husks sliced through a thin...
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- 804 reads
Silence versus politics
Today's event
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- 546 reads
A Two Minute Silence
today's event
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- 504 reads