Picks of the Month
December
Because Of The Color (Short Story)

I am standing on the corner of Main and Second when I suddenly become self-conscious of my sweater.
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- 619 reads
The Goodbye
No smile or words. Rigid, unyielding, for that last photograph. His arm, slack, around my shoulder. I turn from the shot. Hide my tears, knowing he...
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- 430 reads
November
The Collection (Part 1)

1. She wanted a quick getaway, but Reverend Wilkes stopped Layla and her husband on the church steps, ensnaring them in conversation. As the other...
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- 857 reads
Rooks

Rooks Past the backbone’s second hump and hollow hawthorns, a foam of brackish snow and distant light. I heard them first, a row of hanging rooks –...
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- 1136 reads
October
September
Something You'll Have To Live With

Part One
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Tenebris Interlucentem (into the darkness… light)

'into the darkness… light' a winter Wednesday open-mic in a dingy pub in Pontefract or was it Halifax? I don’t rate poetry but if the beer’s good and...
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- 666 reads
August
Illicit Exercise

I’ve taken to running around the field behind my house - you might not call it running - but there is an element of privacy the field affords which...
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- 2163 reads
July
Pins (21)

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- 1186 reads