Cherrypicked stories
SmashinFruit
Smashing Fruit Vine barren after the hard winter, licked warmly by spring rain, bud burst promising fecund joy. Daily fragile delicately- webbed...
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- 648 reads
The Wheel
The Wheel The fire's dull light flickers. A gentle humming wavers then begins anew. There is a spinning wheel softly creaking. Fingers, brown and...
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- 605 reads
Angst Poem Wanted
Tongue in cheek poem about the adolescent work we hide in boxes under the bed
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- 926 reads
A Turkey for Christmas
Father Christmas was tired. He had been up all night delivering presents to children all over the world. He put his reindeer into the stables for a...
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- 1019 reads
Vinyl Magic
Dedicated to all e-woccies and my mother.
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- 920 reads
Good Things Happen to Bad People
The three main characters in this story are Frank, Harry and Sam. Those aren't their real names but they are real people. For that and other reasons...
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- 759 reads
And The Shaman Sings On
Once you enter the Shaman World you may never get out..
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- 868 reads
X - The Big Leap
It was after his third successive failed suicide attempt that Joseph truly began to believe he was immortal. His first two bungled attempts had led...
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- 1471 reads
Crocodile tears
Private grief, public interest
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- 2089 reads
Melted evening
Early evening has melted into lamp lit night Intermitted hours mingled in complimentary shades Have deceived the sluggish machinery of my perception...
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- 841 reads
Birth of Jerry Holiday
The Birth Of Jerry Holiday one morning jerry woke up and found that ambition had snuck in through his window during the night so he put on a pair of...
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- 848 reads
Praise the Lard
T'was in the Flour of My Youth
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- 1685 reads
Death By A Thousand Poems
Is writing poetry a variation on Chinese torture&;#063;
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- 641 reads
Balaklavas At Alma
Ponders End circa 1968 - now if that doesn't entice you, I don't know what will.
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- 1141 reads
Spectre of Grim Professionalism
Real Life Horror
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- 1691 reads
Glove
I lost a glove in the snow You lost your temper The cooling pattern of January's sky born gifts Melted prematurely on steam poached thoughts...
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- 798 reads
Smiling
Ever had the feeling you are being followed&;#063; How would you know&;#063;
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- 554 reads