Cherrypicked stories
The Prayer of the Pike
Quietly, your tea coloured world seeps into scales that have no desire to impress the sun, a brown lump moving in brown water that has no hankering to rush over whitening boulders.
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Healing (Part Five)
A couple of weeks later I was called into the office for the second round of my interrogation.....
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Healing (Part Four)
“Have you ever said that you intend to beat up a colleague?” he said, finally finding his confidence and getting into the swing of things.
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Molly Mandy
Fat lot of good it done me, that so-called ‘special school’
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THE FIGHTER PILOT'S LAMENT
I do not hate them, those I kill; All strangers in a foreign land; I do not love them, those I guard, Nor do I see them close at hand. Yet to the skies my life I pledge
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Four reasons to fear love
buried up to my neck in the husks of a billion taciturn stares
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Healing (Part Three)
I guess my new job started turning sour when a staff member called Donna Cooke and I took a couple of residents to the pictures to see a Disney movie.
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Healing (Part Two)
I flung my first murder and the horrifying guilt that accompanied it into the deepest, darkest mental dungeon I could find.....
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Healing (Part One)
I was travelling through a dark, seemingly endless tunnel when I wrote the first draft of this tale a couple of years back.....
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The Strangers on the Trains ( Part 3)
Emily makes a discovery. Then hears some disturbing news.
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A Winter’s Tale
A twisted tale ... for slightly twisted children.
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On Arriving at 70;
Looking to the future.
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Netherfields
Four sails of the seas To navigate a dry-dock vessel, Square and stationary To turn the air to Dutch advantage. But at last the dyke has burst: derelict Stands the house of industry;
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Girders
Skeletal children born of industrial flame, Called into being to serve the outgoing ships, Before the Navy came to service the Firth. The frightening rush of Dreadnaughts
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Maypole
Centre of the village, focus of historic fears, Children dance to the old songs, dark rhythms in their blood Unconsciously following the final rite in innocent passage,
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Ars Poetica
I intoxicate as rain drunk from a loch...
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...thaw...
'...slush to slush...'
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A Sudden Stillness
Being abnormal doesn't mean you're not normal ... or does it ... or doesn't it.
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Whalebone
The west’s prevailing onshore winds have finally fleshed your ribs with the coarseness of limestone, granite and quartz, a curling cavern scrimshawed only by travelling
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You need to move on, now ..
Living in hope ..
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