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Cherry

Something in the Room

Something in the Room is a piece about my personal relationship with darkness and despair, and my battle with anxiety. Written in second person.
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Crisis Moment

Battle in the blood: hostile invaders immobilised, stabbed, or eaten …crisis as invaders beaten …
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To the nurse who didn't say goodbye

You left and didn't even tell me. I don't know why you left. I know it was probably my fault but I'm really...I don't know...sad, disappointed, angry...

Progress

1821 "I've decided what I'll do be doing" said Maud, who'd spent twenty-five years in the same village. "Well, what will you do be doing?" said Flo,...
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Cherry

A Fairy Tale Ending Part 1

Hamish gave up trying to count his coins and handed the taxi driver a ten pound note. He waved away the change, slid out of the taxi and slammed the...

The Dalek (4)

"A Dalek lived here," the estate agent told every client who visited the property, for such were the rumours he had heard. Nobody believed him, of...

Frank on Parole (after Tom Waits)

Frank on Parole after Tom Waits Frank despairs at the untuned ukulele. The solitary instrument of desperate men. He’s up next with poems dipped in...

Rampton- Chapter 2

Rampton -Chapter 2 Then came the memories from 1976, flashbacks from the year of ‘The Willing’ as the other scouts had called it back then, when...
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Sunny Days

I want the sun to gobsmack me on the arm not just scoot across each section of skin – not cool if my tan shows up in different shades.
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A Coin for Belisarius

Belisarius is the name of a Roman general... the appropriate myth concerns a blind beggar Image is from wiki commons no known copyright issues.
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Disenchantment 29

***** Truck drivers sure keep odd hours, Mark thought, as he heard their diesel engines roar throughout the night at different times. He had been...
Cherry

A Spadeful of Blues

Ten years old... just shows how long I've been obsessed with... well, if you listen to the audio too, you'll know. I've always said I'd pay for an audiobook of him reading Chandler. Image from The Big Combo is in the Public Domain (!!!)
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WebWorld (1.1)

Part 1: Global Warming 1. “It’s getting worse down there.” I didn’t need to walk over to the window and look down on the street to know that. I’d...
Cherry

The Dalek (3)

A Dalek has no soul. All non-essential parts are surgically removed from the Dalek's brain, it is devoid of emotion, feeling, it becomes part of a...
Cherry

"untitleds"

Nothing much to see here. I made the image at graphicsprings.com

July the 4th

It has been 245 years siince the Declaration of Independence. Before people use fireworks, I urge them to be careful. Fireworks can be dangerous if...
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I only wanna laugh

Image: Wikipedia Commons
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In a Cornfield at Midnight

Summer always makes me want to write B-movie sci-fi. Hope you enjoy it! In a Cornfield at Midnight The scream was an awful, wretched sound, primal...
Cherry

Pistols at Dawn

Beginnings and endings.(Flash fiction 350 words)
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The Dalek (2)

"Exterminate. Exterminate." The Dalek said, resonating metallic menace. Words that have foreshadowed countless deaths, unimaginable destruction. The...

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