Cherrypicked stories

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Pillow Case

Speed prose
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U: 7/14/03

Work Diary, 7/14/03 I know I'm supposed to be working on my book and avoiding work diaries, but I need to unwind (or is it "decompress" these days...
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Mother

Truth lies leaden on this land How can we expect forty million hands To forgive, to forget? Still, Levitan swept his dreams south, Eternal Nishny to...
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Pursuit

Being chased by you all over town like Starbucks was strange with your hair and your legs underpinned by wine in overdraft bars name dropping like...
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The swing

short story about a swing
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Graveyard

"Look at this one." Simon brushed the long grass away from in front of the gravestone. "1895." Susan came up behind him and rested her forearms...
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Muse summoning

When everything possible decides to distract you!
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Nature of Peace

Not just a first kiss, THE kiss . . .
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J-The Man I never knew

The Man I never knew In the bed was a man I never knew. My Dad. Twenty-five years living together, and I didn't have a clue; he was a man I never...
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You Only Live Twice

I'm listening to the You Only Live Twice soundtrack. String lines sighing, heaving, summer holidays watching it over and over on video. How lazy we...
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R-Bait

poem
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U-Tomatoes

They have lost Their place yet on the vine. Their green sleep Is marooned behind them. Heavy as babies, By a slim, furry umbilical
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A Good Goddamn

I don't give a good goddamn, she said Breaking the words off like tablets from A block of chocolate A good goddamn Repeated once like some dumb echo...
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Fandango for Cuba

THE PIANOS OF CUBA A leg splinters and crashes sideways as Ernesto practises his scales A pedal support is hollowed out and now he can't play loud or...
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Becoming invisible

your turn is coming
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Education

A poem
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Z: Math's Problem

Speed prose
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Gauguin

poem

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