Cherry

Strozzapreti

A bitter restaurateur contemplates his past triumphs and misdeeds.

Consummation

Man is a conflicted animal, strange desires buried beneath a thin veneer of rationalism But the world is not rational it consumes of itself Tearing itself apart in an orgy of the edible

Too slow for Neal

Too old for Kerouac at forty, too young at fifty.
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socially awkward

I sometimes stare off into space handcuffed to silence in a big empty room full of people who look at me like a smudge on their glasses I am forgotten before i'm even known, and i stopped
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my wife the psychopath

By cover of night she gets psychopathic, my wife.

Small Christmas Openings

Opening a battered box of chocs from France Opening the door in the dark in a trance Opening a card before a gift to be polite Opening the curtains to let in the winter light
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Last Orders

Current I.P. I’ m waiting for the owner of this god-forsaken dive to call time...
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A Very Fine Solution VI

a trip to Torremolinos
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please (don't ) marry me!

My attempt at I.P. An Irish lass makes her case for independance,

Text travel

Her name flashed up on the mobile screen. We had not spoken in months; I’d told her it would be easier that way, staying friends was too hard.

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