Cherrypicked stories
Daydreaming on Guildford High Street
A poem about love and how easy it is to think about those that we love and lust after
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WebWorld (1.9)
She threaded her way through the crowd, trying not to push, but hearing my voice and hearing its desperation, which added to her own fear when she’d...
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The Anthem of Decay - Parts 2 and 3
continuing my personal journey
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make up
We meet like edges of broken bone. When did it become unfixable? Perhaps when you forced the bathroom door to carry on explaining what's wrong with...
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My grandmother
My grandmother liked to break up the monotony of a normal dull moment with a chastening call-to-arms for a ‘nice kippah tie’, an exhortation that...
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Coming Home
In that second through crowds, just like experiencing calm ocean of dazzling aqua marine; melted hearts of awareness hover, transfixed shining smiles...
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A sleepy mid-July mid-afternoon
Azure sky green leaves lie against the blue, and puffs of white float by. All is quiet except a wood-pigeon’s constant thrusting note. A car sweeps...
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WebWorld (1.8)
The Battle for the Ground Through Fourth Floors. That’s what I’ve been calling it in my mind. I suppose it was something that was always on the brink...
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Penalties
On 11 th July 2021 the England Football team lost on penalties to Italy after a 1-1 draw having played extra time in the Final of the Euro2020...
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Steve Mason and the Music Nazi
This is the third entry in the Steve Mason’s School Days at https://www.abctales.com/collection/steve-masons-school-days Steve “Stevo” Mason just...
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Breakfast At Tiffany's
She wasn’t really that wonderful, or even especially nice, but she looked very good in her Vogue power stance in a tense cloud of backlit dry ice...
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The Patel Protocol
Not very interesting, but not improbable. Image from pxhere.com
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This is More
'Noone is born hating...' (Nelson Mandela)
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WebWorld (1.7)
It was a sunny morning, just a little bloody, with the promise of later rain. I looked out on a horizon that was gold mixed with a truly grisly shade...
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Maria's Diary 32
Chapter 32 We walk by faith, and not by sight; And if we ever go astray, Do Thou, O Lord! conduct us right, And lead us in our onward way. Papa did...
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Love is a Verb
You can say the word, love, until it loses all meaning. ‘I love you this and I love you that.’ But, it is in the doing. The action of the word. Love...
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sandcastle
"You are as stupid as each other!" he shouts. My shoulders go up, throat closing. Anger like heat off a car in the sun, I dread sitting in his...
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Craven Gets Flashed 29
Jenny jimmied her way into Mr. Moynahan’s Village Oddities shop. The rest of the crew followed. “Would you look at this place,” said Craven. “It’s a...
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After the ball
Devastation. We walked with our heads bowed in case they were watching. We didn’t want to say it, didn’t want to make song or dance. We couldn’t...
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