Cherrypicked stories
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
An homage to Siegfried Sassoon & the War Poets All Quiet on the Eastern Front Fight for your people, your country and king, Fight to do service,...
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Count Twice (3)
Tuesday came, and for the first time in six years lane three formed without him. He spent the day below a bricked-over storefront near the yards, in...
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Lullabies
Rainbows in the water from the hose. Running through the falling drops with muddy feet, laughing so hard I feel my ribs ache. Records playing we...
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Babyccino
Here's a more complete version of an earlier story. “But why not, Mummy?” “Because I say so Oliver, and that’s enough.” She was aware of eyes on her...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 3.
Chapter Three. The Teenage Years. Angola was one of the lucky ones. In Nether Wintle, most girls left school at eleven or twelve to help at home or...
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Micah or the end of Magic. Chapter 7.
Chapter 7. Calizone’s Cottage. As Josiah had said, the road into the Dark Forest began a few miles from the village. They stopped at the crossroads...
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Fake Wikipedia page for non existent sitcom spinoff movie - Bobby's Beat Abroad
Bobby’s Beat Abroad is a 1980 British comedy film direct by Cliff Owen and staring Felicity Kendal, Peter Jones, Robin Asquith and Sid James and...
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Count Twice (2)
What he kept of the missing time came to him later and never in order, and he never wrote any of it down. The pump getting larger. Not louder. Larger...
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Fake Wikipedia page for non existent sitcom - Bobby's Beat
Bobby’s Beat is a British comedy produced by BBC TV. It ran from 7 March 1978 to 3 May 1981 on BBC1 and was written by Andrew Weekes and Dave Clark...
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Fake Wikipedia page for non existent sitcom - Gay Dad
Gay Dad is a British comedy produced by Alomo Productions for Channel 4. It ran from 4 April 2001 to 9 May 2001 on Channel 4 and was written by Angus...
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Illuminated
It was what you might call a happy accident Because I hadn't looked at that podcast in weeks But there at the top of the app, you sat Hair quiffed,...
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Micah or the end of Magic. Chapter 6.
Chapter 6. Second Sight. Early the next morning, Micah set out again. He walked for a long time without seeing a single person. Hungry and tired, he...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 2
Chapter Two. Miss Ganner’s Finest Pupil. By the time Angola Muppert turned twelve, she had become something of a local legend. Nether Wintle was not...
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The First Letter
Early one morning the small green lights went out. No thunder in it: only the hush a house makes when the furnace quits. They lifted their phones...
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Count Twice (1)
The first bus came through at five fifty, and Dail Prosser was folded and swept before its headlights crossed the depot fence. He worked in a fixed...
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Thus spake the Angel Anarchica
Let there be darkness, also, to hide secret things, and to give modern eyes rest from the constant light, public exposure, moral judgement, and...
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Kazakh Stan and Kazakh Olly
Proving to the world that there was more to my life than Kazakhstan dancing ladies during the final sixteen days of July.
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Blackpool
Blackpool The weight of it is still present. A dropped book from a tenement. Sealed and unread, dared to be slit. A music hall town of tea leaves,...
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Guffin Gary Grover
The Wilcox gang was the most feared in school. Their leader, of course, was Barry Wilcox, Baz if he liked you, and you’d better be sure he liked you...
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The only man in the convent.
Fiacre gets off his bike and leans on it to watch the beginning of another day, the making of a morning. Not the slightest, quietest breeze rises to...
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