Cherrypicked stories
KHEPRI
Thank you Eds. for the cherry yesterday which seems to have arrived at the same time I removed this for some 'tinkering'
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The Follower
Was it paranoia? Perhaps it was, as the train pulled away from the station which was a three-minute walk from Frazier street maternity hospital, with...
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Dogsbody (3)
After the pub job, my money soon dried up. I was back to making calls and going through the local papers. One evening, Mr Watson – a tall elderly man...
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The Lilliputians in the vegetable patch - IP
In literature, we often stumble across inventions—names, ideas, phrases—that become so deeply ingrained in our culture that we forget their origins...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (4)
The days had a routine that he liked. Get washed and dressed and have his Corn Flakes or Ready Brek for breakfast. Dad had already gone to work, and...
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On the Other Hand
Summer wasn’t all drama. The holiday cottage was lovely, with some bigger and better beasties at the bird-feeder– red squirrel, pine martin. Visited...
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A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Cafe revisited
The Whale Cafe revisited I’m back in the lunch queue at the Whale Cafe. Now you may be thinking, that as I regularly get my lunch at the Whale Cafe,...
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Goodbye kiss
It was with closed lips The day we kissed goodbye There was no emotion Or commotion On platform five we stood You were looking at the clock You were...
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Dogsbody (2)
After the interview at the Employment Exchange, I set to. Next day, I took a notebook down to the phone box in the village and looked up ‘Farmers’ in...
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Blunt Trauma
She was lying motionless when he arrived. He’d heard the commotion from his desk where he’d only just begun going over the homework assignments...
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A hundred moments in autism - I am Hangry
I am hangry. Autists can be prone to anger, a symptom of exhaustion from constant masking and frustration on not understanding NT communication and...
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Reasons to be Raging - Pt 3
Best laid plans to spend the summer months painting the wee weird door and wee weird windowsill on the kitchen exteriors ganged aglay , mostly as I...
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a city fable
when the storm of black snow and acid rain tears as the dark smoke clears if there in the starless sky the neon bow appears for you to have happiness...
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Projection
Open your eyes, the sun has come out. A stream of cars whirrs down Haverstock Hill. The cars disappoint, the cars disturb. You want unfettered quiet...
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the lost manuscript 2
He didn’t set out to be a slob. It was just easier not to care in a flat-footed way to wear the same clothes until they were like twins with an...
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Chelsea Floor Show
What's it about? I've no idea. Make up your own meaning, why don't you? :-D image is PD
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Dogsbody (1)
Something new! I retire next year after 50 years of work - and almost 40 jobs in total! I've tried many things - failed at some, succeeded at others...
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Tears on My Pillow (Dead Reckoning series - Part 28)
Josiah and Archibald are hospitalised and the Detectives survey the aftermath.
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Tom Tom Turnaround (3)
Russell leapt into Tom's bed in the dark and pulled him down under the covers. "This one's a vegetable souper." The fart sounded like a sheet being...
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No Spend, No Point
In times gone by, people paid attention to omens, portents, believing ‘It’s a sign!’, to guide them to pastures new. Nowadays, we have algorithms. It...
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