Cherrypicked stories
Easy
Clubbing in the year 20__ - but be careful what you put in your mouth
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- 642 reads
N: 9/24/02
Work Diary, 9/24/02 The human resources manager in my office has a son with cancer of the colon. He's only twenty-one. They've removed most of the...
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- 747 reads
M: 9/23/02
Work Diary, 9/23/02 I have not pressed my own clothes since the age of nineteen, when my friend's mother's iron left a burn mark on my favorite white...
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- 834 reads
Over the horizon...
Monday 23 September. Last week in the office. A weird feeling before I step into the abyss. Am looking forward to the abyss now. Scared, apprehensive...
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- 960 reads
Instruction
Take oil and pour it in your hand, some bland carrier - grapeseed or almond then drops of volatile lavender. Go against the grain, spine base to neck...
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- 721 reads
Florescent Colors in a Black and White World
One man finally gets his own little world
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- 1083 reads
Is this love that I'm feeling&;#063;
I shrink into the dark at the station carpark's edge, still on the low brick wall; a pool of flat lucozade light laps my feet moths spiral up through...
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- 1109 reads
New Friends
Could they be friends&;#063;
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- 691 reads
Our Daughters' Teeth
She left home a month ago in a matter-of-fact way. No tears were shed, no lingering goodbyes. She was leaving, not walking away. It was the natural...
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- 599 reads
L: 9/20/02
Work Diary, 9/20/02 Unlikely people whom I admire: 1. My sixth-grade French teacher, who visited California and dug through Gloria Vanderbilt's...
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- 760 reads
Remember Me - Labienus
School Memories Stirred Up
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- 642 reads
Under the Eye of the Bat
bat diary
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- 1567 reads
Empire Made
At Infants School in the 1960s
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- 625 reads
Seventy Six '76
Child becomes woman amidst the great summer of '76
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- 1154 reads
Dentist's Needle, The
Learning to live with a phobia
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- 475 reads
Estate Agent Survey
Indentations the chipboard wall from bedposts punched sex then addiction take away menus on the door mat gloss the gasbill a worn key front step milk...
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- 1485 reads
Snookers for Balls
A true story from the other side of the riverbank.
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- 568 reads
Let the children eat tripe
in praise of mayonnaise
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- 683 reads
Dark Horses
on the theme "against the grain"
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- 679 reads


