Cherrypicked stories
Sunday morning street cafe
Sunday stream of consciousness
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- 102 reads
Lima (before or after the jungle)
These are snippets or snapshots from a much larger piece
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- 81 reads
The Devils's Surgeon Part 4
Can the apothecary prove his abilities and save the life of the baker's son?
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- 8 comments
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- 142 reads
Omar's Diary - Sunday 10th June 2018
The Derby Results - A couple of Disappointments - Health care - Adam Smith As regular readers of my diary may or may not be aware, one of my...
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- 298 reads
Operation March Hare
The Department is located in Whitehall, approximately six floors below ground level, in a sprawling maze of corridors known as the Rabbit Warren. The...
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- 370 reads
The Devils Surgeon Part 3
The Mayor of Gorham is faced with a problem: is the apothecary telling the truth. A dishonest night watchman gives him extra time in which to decide but at the apothecary's expense.
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- 81 reads
The Light Lunch
“I’d be really disappointed if someone gave me a light lunch,” said Mildred the Venusian. “Why?,” said her husband, Harold (who was also from Venus...
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- 78 reads
lookers
Up until about three years ago, I was normal. Now I stand outside the Co-op in Dalmuir and I’ve got a dog, with a piece of string for a lead. People...
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- 564 reads
The Devil's Surgeon Part 2
When a stranger arrives at the gates of a plague hit town, the town's meddling priest takes it upon himself to deal with the matter.
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- 75 reads
Here Are Things
Image writer's own... Goodbye, Dad.
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- 512 reads
Duka's Return
‘Enver, Enver, your lunch!’ The dappled shade from the pine tree is perfect for sitting and writing but he never gets further than the first two...
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- 134 reads
Fuente de la Mora
Between gigs.
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- 235 reads
Julian and I
It was a lizard’s tongue-flick after England One Germany Four in the World Cup when armies of churlish chair-hurling Anglo-Saxons who apparently aren...
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- 69 reads
permanent summer
The rain had stopped and the sun was low in the sky. Seagulls were screeching and scavenging along the line of the dock and the people waiting. ‘You’...
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- 293 reads
The Devil's Surgeon Part 1
I'm out of my comfort zone with this one. It's still first draft even though I've been writing it on and off for a couple of years. I hope you like it. It begins with a burial...
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- 109 reads
It's More Than Poetry
I’m in love with a dream. Sloppy pants and farmer boots hide heavy socks on a day full of mosquito bites and I am not happy. Some victims take a swig...
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- 188 reads
She was like a Summer's day
She was like a Summer's day; like the trees that seem happy in the breeze; full of hope as the sky; her eyes like leaves shining in the sun; her...
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- 80 reads
The Hitchhiker (part two)
Part Two of a short story. Not intended to be split, but because of character limits it's in two parts- please read together. This is a first draft so feedback is appreciated.
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- 70 reads
The Hitchhiker (part one)
Part One of a short story. Not intended to be split, but because of character limits it's in two parts- please read together. This is a first draft so feedback is appreciated.
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- 42 reads