Cherrypicked stories
In This House II
She needn’t search for a bump on her head this time. The aching pain let it be known. In the coolness of the room, she could feel a trickle of warm...
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Undercover Agent 2
“It’s a parrot with perfect recall,” Denton told his boss. “Word for word.” “How does that help. We’ can’t use a parrot in court, we’d look...
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Undercover Agent 1
“Armed police,” someone shouted, and a dozen or more armed officers stormed into the room. They surrounded the table, at which Linton and Hilya were...
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Cat Nation
Mrs Simpkins had stuck little A4 posters on every lamp post , bin and tree in a one-mile radius of her small garden flat in the quiet end of town at...
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Domestic Help
“You’re out of milk, down to your last egg and there’s something green and unpleasant on the top shelf. Is it something I said?” My fridge sends me...
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In This House
It was the wind outside which finally roused her. If not for the storm, cascading sidewards in howling waves, she’d have remained in slumber. Perhaps...
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In A Troubled Land
What lies ahead shows incessant consternation by the hour; Fleeting moments grieving, yearning lips crave romantic lover, for a maiden needs...
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The Bank Manager
News item from the Bounds Green Advertiser 22 nd December 1941 BUNGLED BANK ROBBERY ENDS IN TRAGEDY Abi Gale, Crime Reporter An attempted bank...
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Envy
Canary confined: … Lady longing to be …
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Dad's poet society
“I wish I had never put myself in such an awkward position!” he muses desperately. “If I only had given him some instructions. Just a few tips. Like...
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The Red Kite (bird of prey)
Image is a part of a painting by my aunt.
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The gamechanger
My dream scenario!
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Ivan
Why didn’t he say he was dying? Why not call and leave a message on my voicemail? ‘ Shim, I’m dying, call me back ’. You knew he had cancer but you...
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Superstition
Superstition Jennifer Pickup 04.04.2024 I always believed in the old wives’ tales, Blamed them for every one of my life fails: You didn’t perform the...
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Above Peterchurch, east of the Black Mountains
30/3/24 Clear lovely views of the Black mountains as we travelled west to Peterchurch [in the Golden Valley – the river Dore, thought of as D'or, 'of...
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Son of My Father
What's this one about? Fathers and sons, old age, what awaits us all... and loads of other things, you decide. Image in PD, source Look and Learn.com, Odysseus and the sirens.
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Black Hole
Another old one. I treated it to some punctuation and one word change. So now it's a completely different poem, isn't it? Picture is from wiki commons. Used under CC 4.0 licence
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Letters from a Daily Mail reader - letter to the National Trust
Dear National Trust I was disgusted during a recent visit to a national trust property, to find that there was no dead squirrel sticking out of the...
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Poetry Commotion
And this is the oldest thing I could find today. It used to be on an earlier incarnation of UKA, in 2010. image made at canva.com
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