Cherrypicked stories
Special Church Parade
An Interlude in Wartime
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- 956 reads
Human Cage
Compelled, pressured, push and prodded, Placed on a pedestal of ice, Worshiped like a winter god, An April fool about to die, I feel the world is...
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- 1033 reads
Sunflowers
Sunflowers, she said to me I put them under my bed For safe keeping Her syllables Turning me in my sleep Safe sleeping. Later on in life i use The...
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- 704 reads
The Island
The Island. Wrapped in the golden beams of the warming sun Lee sat on the deserted beach. She thought over her time on this island, and all it had...
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- 755 reads
Room for you
For the people on ABC tales....there are a lot of you to name...but I know who you are....
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- 1048 reads
Learning Not To Touch Bubbles
When I was little picking up my crayons I'd first have a picture behind my eyes, try to take it out, make it real on paper, always get frustrated...
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- 897 reads
It
A disease where people are literally "stuck up their own arses"!
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- 1090 reads
Women &; Madness: Part 1
Victorian: From red rooms to blue peaks.
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- 1018 reads
Madness &; Women:Part 2
Psychiatric modernism: Women in the drawing room.
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- 853 reads
Business is Business
Murders are like busses. You wait ages to be asked to do one then two come along together
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- 897 reads
Realpolitik At The Refuge
A strong-minded woman is hard to beat.
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- 771 reads
Immortality
Immortality Part I Urban Myths " Have you heard the urban myth about the statue of fate?" Tom asked. "Yeah, the ghostly statue who turns a page in...
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- 990 reads
INTERMISSION
INTERMISSION Frank Donatelli had seen the opera enough times to know that when Baron Scarpa swears to Tosca, "For you I will forsake salvation!" the...
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- 947 reads
A Snapshots
Dishonesty is Sometimes the Best Policy
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- 938 reads
A strange kind of illness
Matthew sat in his locked office and prepared to do it again. No one knew. Not even his wife. It was a strange kind of illness, so invisible, but so consuming. He was surprised that it had happened to him. http://www.cooperking.co.uk
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- 1151 reads
Mother
The old ways are not always the best
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- 897 reads
Sun
Sunlight masks Silt thick Silk rich Slithers, drips Slips Seived through Leaf lips To scatter Flicker Worm Into my skin
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- 1018 reads
Tv Listings
TV Listing from a few years ago
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- 897 reads
The Awakening
The Awakening I awoke in a daze not sure if I was really here. I had been ill in the night. And my sleep had been disturbed with restlessness and...
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- 1095 reads