Cherrypicked stories
Cross platform
Funny, you are spending all your working days inventing ways to make machines and men communicate, but evenings, even in the intimacy of our...
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- 824 reads
Political Prisoner
My smiling eyes grow dim As memories of sun: In this walled winter Day dawns stillborn. Hopes fall, frosted fruit To rot into doubt at my feet. I...
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- 826 reads
Viewpoints
write the same story from three different viewpoints...
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- 761 reads
Cycle Snapped and Vow Kept
A door slams, glass breaks She shudders in her bed. A voice screams, a fist smacks She hides, buries her head. Footsteps sound, a door creaks She...
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- 1140 reads
Regret
birds' song like scent's released at light's condensing in sky's pan a syrup on horizon's edge sweet, orange begins to blacken in corners hollies'...
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- 900 reads
MUSIC BOX.
Sleep well my toxic trauma...
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- 1099 reads
Long after I'm gone
If you can read this...then you have something special..
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- 620 reads
Mommies and Daddies
My tortured little heart didn't know mommies and daddies knew how. They always said it was okay, but I didn't think they were allowed. I watched in...
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- 780 reads
Best Mates
The Future Never Happened Chapter VII
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- 3290 reads
G
The breeze quickens and the leaves pick up their pace across the uneven pavement. Like a bag caught up in the air and then thrown again when the wind...
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- 1004 reads
The Understudy
A sister tired of waiting in the wings.
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- 655 reads
Normal service
Normal service I am standing on the middle escalator, waiting for my train out of London Bridge. The escalator is not working. It isn't broken, out...
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- 933 reads
Vainly
You hauling me to the mirror. See what I see - saying - see what I love Love. And two faces side by side in the silver Saying your face that I love...
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- 1018 reads
Wurlitzer
It feels like every thought I have Is you in thoughtform turning Like you are made of light or breath Like you are made of electricity And the...
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- 1201 reads
Yellow Dress
That crocheted yellow mini dress She made it herself on the nights they sat Side by side on the new suite. She could cook - that's for sure. Her...
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- 1093 reads
The Boats, The Beach, The Bliss Of It All
Inspired by a trip to Whitstable in the grip of depression.
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- 979 reads
The Golem
A Golem is created who plays chess
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- 657 reads
Eye, Eye
Ummm, well, maybe you'd just better read it...
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- 628 reads