Cherrypicked stories

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Dusty Fingers

I collect rubbish. Unknowingly, unconsciously or because I'm too lazy to make decisions, I collect rubbish. With this thought in mind, I decided to...
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Mountain Rescue

He's lain in the snow for eighteen hours, can Jake and the rest of the team save the little boy or
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Village Raises Another Child

An Elder came seemingly out of nowhere, and taught them all.
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C: Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Back then she was called Female, as in tamale. She was born in the United States, across a shallow river from her hometown that would later...
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Menopausal Maniacal Me

Why do they call it the 'change of life, when it should be called the murderous years&;#063;
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A Terrible Master

We all had things that stuck to us in those days. That held us, and we gratefully held them back. Tightly. Those days, those clinging days that stuck...
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A Terrible Master

We all had things that stuck to us in those days. That held us, and we gratefully held them back. Tightly. Those days, those clinging days that stuck...
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View

after a day of far too many hurtful comments
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Water in Chrissie

inspired by Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy', and an overdose of PMS.
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Hand Grenades and Horseshoes

Lying on the sun-buttered, wind-seared beach, drinking Absinthe and ice water, he picks at his burning wounds. This is between him and his conscience...
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X What counts

Later, some will say she walked the beach mile from town, brought herself to rest against the low dune and knowing her time was done waited, watching...
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Time, You Say&;#063;

It governs you, we know. Stern faced, black handed dismisses your excuses with a sweep of its arm. You look at it, we see you, how it divides the...
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Orchard

Some say it's between you and your conscience, what you do or don't do when no-one knows or sees you. The way you never walked that dog when they...
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T ~ Caligula wants to die

A new addition to what will eventually be a sort of play.
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B: Chapter 2

Surly Ann, Chapter 2 Many peopled asked, "My goodness, what happened to her?" An easy question, though asked uneasily. Mostly the question was asked...
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G ~ A seeker, hopeful

Another appreciation of. Man's gotta do *something* at work.
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E - The Emperor's Garden

'Prove me,' you said as I slid a razor down your back, but drew no blood. Your face was white and breathing like an orchid. There are no flowers as...
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Adela of Ismere The Prologue

The prologue of an Anglo Saxon novel. There is a parallell novel that runs from 1984 - 2020.
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Leaving Now Behind

Happiness is a fragile thing, especially when life races by at a hundred miles a minute.

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