Cherrypicked stories
This scar
This scar on my right arm Is not from a fearsome battle, Nor from a sporting accident, Not even from racing on a circuit Or from a marshal bout in a...
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- 780 reads
Journalism Junkie
Addiction doesn't always mean substance abuse...
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- 1125 reads
C) Ice Cream
Ice Cream You would have to see the photograph, but we are both eating choc ices, my sister and I; there she is, intent on the wrapper, wrapped...
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- 1210 reads
Does your TV addiction really harm others&;#063;
Does your TV addiction really harm others? "Please turn it off" He said with a cough Just before you realised that he was half way through hanging...
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- 978 reads
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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- 771 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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- 734 reads
Angst Poem Wanted
Tongue in cheek poem about the adolescent work we hide in boxes under the bed
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- 1163 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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- 1212 reads
Vinyl Magic
Dedicated to all e-woccies and my mother.
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- 1136 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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- 923 reads
And The Shaman Sings On
Once you enter the Shaman World you may never get out..
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- 1022 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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- 1701 reads
Crocodile tears
Private grief, public interest
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- 2313 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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- 1056 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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- 1004 reads
Praise the Lard
T'was in the Flour of My Youth
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- 1807 reads