Cherrypicked stories
Tabitha
The water on the window collected and trickled into the bonnet gully. The night sky was black and the telephone kiosk bulb dim, in the car Billy...
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- 448 reads
S A Small Wall
A Small Wall For a week now you have been placing brick on mortared brick. Your mate scoops off the surplus, scrapes his trowel along the edge, and...
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- 395 reads
W: 12/04/02
Work Diary, 12/04/02 I am so appalled. Last night, I found myself trapped in a traffic jam. As luck would have it, I had to pee - really pee, as in...
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- 774 reads
J - Going Solo
Breakup of an old stage partnership.
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- 1109 reads
B) Part 2
On the shore, a splinter of flesh finally worked free, lay, far from the branches of humanity. The sucking edges of the wound drew back, the taste of...
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- 544 reads
A) part 1
The trees shivered, flexuous as a green skin over the wind's muscles. She watched from her tower, pressing her hand to the stilled liquid of the...
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- 473 reads
Reader meets author
How can you tell feelings&;#063;
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- 584 reads
Venus Forge 1
On visiting Tate Modern
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- 446 reads
Tolstoy's House
A tale from Moscow
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- 982 reads
Shell.
An abused child trades with a faery.
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- 1056 reads
Drum and bass
I've made the bed and bathed and tidied up and while I'm waiting for you listen to the languid, rhythmic rap and rattle of the drum and bass. To...
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- 549 reads
Muffins and Ham
Alice knows all about friendship. "We are going to be the best of friends," she had read. "I hope you like raisin muffins." Alice first read those...
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- 1940 reads
Developers.
Never Build a House on Faery Ground.
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- 4182 reads
B: The Welsh Robber
Dad's primal scream therapy for the working class.
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- 753 reads
That THING!!
Talking ticks, and squeaking quirks.
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- 509 reads
Meeting Mr. Wright
Tale of tired chat-show host
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- 585 reads
The death of the 'The Death of the Author' author
After I watched her read the last page she let the book fall to the floor and without really looking where she was going she got up and walked out...
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- 1495 reads
Day dreams
you are here, but I miss you
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- 385 reads
V: 11/25/02
Work Diary, 11/25/02 My partner and I met Brandon when he was nineteen. In ten days, Brandon will be twenty-two, an age when most American males are...
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- 777 reads