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Basement Baby

My right leg has gone numb. An annoying tickle runs up and down my thigh. Can’t feel anything past my knee. That’s a good thing, I suppose.
Cherry

Novocaine

“My tooth hurt.” That was my mother’s suicide note: “My tooth hurt.”

The Art of Good Listening

When I was young all I wanted to do was talk
Cherry

The fairest of them all

Entry three for pentathlon - fairy stories for grown-ups

Hanging man.

I saw him hanging upside down, rope bound tightly around his ankles and tied to the thickest part of a tree branch.
Cherry

George and Spider Part Nine - The Lawns Estate

The Lawns Estate was a stark collection of human dwellings, constructed upon a flat expanse of land, high above sea level.

Alone and Hungry

Left him for another man seems ages ago.

CLARA Chapter 10 Which Way Is Home: Clara Meets Owl

It was dark. The world looks very different in the dark and now Clara didn't know which way to go to get home again. It can be very scary in the dark and all alone...

I Met

without wings and other rules to share

CLARA Chapter 9 Clara‘s Pond Adventure: Learning About Swimming

Do pigs swim? Clara didn't know. She had never tried to swim before but learning new things was a good thing. She could try...

CLARA Chapter 8 Pigs Are Not Like Frogs

Clara was enjoying her day of adventure, seeing and learning new things, but hopping and leaping; well, it is good to try new things even if you aren't very good at them...
Cherry

Exams, Work and Firefighting ( Part 4)

I pass my exams and return to North London.But the bombings continue.

Gollum Meets James Bond

“Moonraker is an integral Bond film,” I lie. “This is like the best one.” I do not mention that I could just pause the shittiest Bond film ever.

PURE LOVE

Heat 3 Entry

DEAD END JOB

Heat 2 Entry

TELLING PORKIES

Heat 1 Entry

That Summer Night.

A passing Summer love

warning signs

got this spreading, tingling, numbing, pulsating, stabbing, throbbing, pain that won’t take a vacation, that won’t give itself a rest, that won’t lighten up &

death of a christian science English teacher

i remember well the name of my 11th grade English teacher--- Ms. Tominson, who had been rumored to have given some of her students fellatio, during the time when she wasn’t lecturing on

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