Cherrypicked stories
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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- 638 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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- 596 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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- 751 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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- 835 reads
Stolen Wigs and Baseball Caps
Based on true events
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- 639 reads
Miscarriage
Submission under 'Reunion' theme
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- 705 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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- 854 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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- 1038 reads
Silence versus politics
Today's event
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- 754 reads
A Two Minute Silence
today's event
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- 706 reads
Emily
A story of a girl and her nose
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- 1593 reads
Girl With the Sun in Her Eyes
I am one who cannot be seen. A dreamer with a rucksack, standing on the edge of this road. Invisible. I think I chose the wrong junction, but I'm too...
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- 1324 reads
Y: OO
OO Roses are red, Cut through stems at a tilt, Like French bread sliced for the picnic the stinging rain called off. Violets are violet, Stem cuts,...
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- 1561 reads
Kissing The Pink
Politics, torture and snooker.
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- 454 reads