Picks of the Month
November
Trees on the Arapuni Road
When they felled the high trees mother was delighted she lived in fear of their imminent collapse onto our matchbox house despite their wounds they...
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- 676 reads
The Sleep Olympics
I was asleep when the Sleep Olympics started, meaning I missed out on all the dramatics of the Japanese contestant’s non-regulation pajama bottoms...
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- 319 reads
October
Seven Nights in the Flamingo Hotel
At five o’clock in the morning you are woken by the sounds of the couple in the next room arguing and this surprises you because the previous night...
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- 682 reads
Never trust a writer
Or even someone who just writes
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- 878 reads
September
Talking to My Mother
Talking to my mother is easier now she is dead - she’d put me into orbit but I was more of a spin-off - not an asteroid or meteorite on a trajectory...
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- 1053 reads
Land and Water - 1
Three stories connected by journeys.
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- 1270 reads
August
Katy, A Ghost Story (IP)
Wrote this one ages ago, and thought I'd have a go at the IP with it Picture Credit: https://tinyurl.com/y2c95x4p
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- 2534 reads
July
Poking a Snake
Peter’s obligatory ties constituted a kind of sign language, though a not exceptionally difficult one to decipher. If he sported a bird motif, it...
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- 820 reads
the essence of quintessence
Are we really becoming so damned shallow?
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- 11 comments
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- 765 reads
June
Puddle of land
They started coming soon after a woman on the island of North Ronaldsay mentioned her on a programme about island life shown on the telly. Mhari didn...
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- 1357 reads