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Highway Part 8

Highway Chapter 9 She had come back. Even from the end of the street, I could hear her footsteps. I didn’t quite know it was her, I could only hear...

Highway Part 7

Highway Chapter 8 It hurts. It hurts so much. I am filled with pain, and it hurts more than can be imagined. My lungs are burning from the run,...

Each tear.

Each tear is a new breath welcoming the rest of sorrow within the heart and cleanses when the depth of sadness crushes the soul within!

The last castrato. (eerie aria)

Spayed at seven (well before the drop), I Lothar Bampi am sopranoed for all time, and amidst my neuteriety and fame as the last castrato, beyond the...

Murder at Three Mile Creek pub over a debt.

He floors old man Huggard with a big king hit, and he goes down hard, a fleshy hessian sack of shit, stands over him droolin' and says, "Its been two...

Too Many Monkeys

This city they call New York and this daily commute have been getting to me. I should have been a forest ranger. But I'll get over it. I always do...

One month on

A re-hashed first chapter of something I put up here a couple of years ago - it is the beginning of a first-person train-of-thought novel about an indecisive and uninspired university graduate

Out there

Just Out there

'How soon is now?' said the slug

"How soon is now?" said the slug. "Don't quote The Smiths at me," said the magpie. "What are 'Smiths'?" said the slug. The slug slid. The magpie...

A Dangerous Choice. Part 2.

That afternoon Curdy, after retrieving the line from the floor sat on a stool in Cassidy's bookies and watched in desperate fear as the third horse...

GAMES OF CHANCE

it started out with catching fish or sometimes warlike games collecting treasure troves of eights avoiding maiden dames . but when the games involved...

The Winchburgh Chronicles.Part 4.

Greengrass lifted his wine glass and slowly sipped. The cherry flavoured Barone Ricasoli Chianti filled his mouth. He looked across at Dominique. She...

The Winchburgh Chronicles. Part 3.

“Say I. Yie there ya Zoomer?” “ Course A'm here, A’m talking tae yie. Whit is it?” “ They eggs fae Greengrass?” “ Aye.” “ A took them tae Allandale...

The Winchburgh Chronicles. Part 2.

Paul parked the hack in the lay-by at Cairnpapple Hill and made his way up the wooden steps to the ancient burial site. When he reached the plateau...

Smiles, Pure Thoughts, etc. 3

what is a pure, unadulterated thought? is it a pure word come from the unconscious, unhampered, no censor? an intuition shot straight to the head, no...

Smiles, Pure Thoughts, etc. 2

what is the pure american smile? the smile of Tom Cruise in Top Gun? it's a smile of complete victory over a handicap. his father was a great Top Gun...
Cherry

'After the Bath'

After a painting by Degas... Would he have overlooked the mole on my left buttock?

Bade Bhai Sahab (The Brother): Part 1

This is an amateurish retelling of a short story by a renowned Hindi author Premchand. There is plenty that is lost a lot in the translation and much more in the humble beginnings of a bumbling writer.
Cherry

The Fantastical Adventures Of Tommy Teal, The Little Boy Whose Dreams Are Real.

Adventure One Tommy’s Sixth Birthday Tommy Teal was half awake and half asleep when he heard his mum calling to him, telling him it was time to get...
Cherry

The Confessions of Paul Davis ( Part 6).

He remembered smiling as he took the call from Seamus. At last, someone was more powerful than the mighty George Kelly. Make no mistake; George had...

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