Cherrypicked stories
W) The Cows
As his mouth pulled away from hers she felt the moisture on her lips almost seem to freeze, as if the next time he touched her she would shatter into...
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- 2976 reads
Eavesdropping
You're not a writer, you're an eavesdropper!
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- 488 reads
Is that your final answer?
You can always phone a friend - if you've got one.
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- 686 reads
I - Chalk
Nothing more than an anecdote really
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- 1001 reads
Reading in bed
Reading in bed. You stood me on end thumbed through my pages skipped straight to the part you'd enjoy you bent my spine. Beat, unbinding book loosely...
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- 627 reads
Mike?s First Book.
Mike's First Book. Mike was unhappy Slumping in his chair so Vandana took him out to Waterstones. Bug-eyed he watched as she selected a compact, red...
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- 588 reads
Q: 11/11/02
Work Diary, 11/11/02 My paternal grandmother was a former prostitute who lived in Freeport, Texas. Her name was Josephine French, and it would be...
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- 747 reads
Litter of leaves
In the tall trees bare twigs cannot shake off whispering whisps of suffocation; designed to keep out life's passing plastic refuses to die. Rich...
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- 827 reads
Stolen Wigs and Baseball Caps
Based on true events
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- 632 reads
Miscarriage
Submission under 'Reunion' theme
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- 694 reads
Out
tasks repeated again again as grains of sand blister my thoughts with time lost skull bone my lone frail wall I wear make up to thicken it say I'm...
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- 840 reads
Remembrance
remembrance only that summer the fens dried and baked and the combine harvesters in a dispassion of dust and wheat-husks sliced through a thin...
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- 1025 reads
Silence versus politics
Today's event
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- 743 reads
A Two Minute Silence
today's event
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- 696 reads
Emily
A story of a girl and her nose
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- 1581 reads