Cherrypicked stories
Sly Clothes
With him went the rail of shirts the empty skins of him soft as birthday gifts. The line of tilted shoes left imprints of their heels and circles in...
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- 3997 reads
O: 9/25/02
Work Diary, 9/25/02 If they stopped to think about it, people who have eaten lobster or crab could probably describe the word "barbaric" in intimate...
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- 784 reads
I - DIARY PAGE - 23 SEPTEMBER 2002
Diary Page - 23 September 2002. This morning was totally different from other days. I had spent my night on the train and early in the morning,...
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- 1083 reads
Indifference
Written under threat of war.
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- 606 reads
Easy
Clubbing in the year 20__ - but be careful what you put in your mouth
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- 696 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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- 803 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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- 878 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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- 1005 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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- 813 reads
Florescent Colors in a Black and White World
One man finally gets his own little world
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- 1172 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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- 1154 reads
New Friends
Could they be friends&;#063;
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- 748 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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- 637 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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- 808 reads
Remember Me - Labienus
School Memories Stirred Up
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- 684 reads
Under the Eye of the Bat
bat diary
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- 1621 reads
Empire Made
At Infants School in the 1960s
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- 684 reads
Seventy Six '76
Child becomes woman amidst the great summer of '76
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- 1237 reads