Cherrypicked stories
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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- 911 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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- 1051 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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- 907 reads
Florescent Colors in a Black and White World
One man finally gets his own little world
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- 1268 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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- 1196 reads
New Friends
Could they be friends&;#063;
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- 787 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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- 677 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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- 847 reads
Remember Me - Labienus
School Memories Stirred Up
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- 719 reads
Under the Eye of the Bat
bat diary
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- 1675 reads
Empire Made
At Infants School in the 1960s
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- 731 reads
Seventy Six '76
Child becomes woman amidst the great summer of '76
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- 1299 reads
Dentist's Needle, The
Learning to live with a phobia
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- 562 reads
Estate Agent Survey
Indentations the chipboard wall from bedposts punched sex then addiction take away menus on the door mat gloss the gasbill a worn key front step milk...
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- 1582 reads
Snookers for Balls
A true story from the other side of the riverbank.
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- 676 reads
Let the children eat tripe
in praise of mayonnaise
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- 790 reads
Dark Horses
on the theme "against the grain"
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- 850 reads
J: 9/16/02
Work Diary, 9/16/02 Today is my partner's and my thirteenth anniversary. We're not legally married, since we aren't allowed to be, but what...
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- 885 reads
Ire-aq, fox-hunting and hypocrisy
There is a legitimate argument for attacking Iraq, but they're not honest enough to make it.
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- 1632 reads