Picks of the Month
March
The day after yesterday
...on millpond water, I gripped this groaning mast...
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- 1080 reads
February
The Autumn of Her Years
She was suddenly overcome by a desperate urge to be on her own, away from the formality, the fuss and above all, the sympathy. She leaned forward and...
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- 786 reads
More Guns
1. In America, land of the gun they say they're arming everyone. If they want less shootings, its agreed, more guns, my god, is what they need. 2...
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- 928 reads
January
Removed for submission
Image: © José Manuel Suárez/Wikimedia Commons
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- 1223 reads
December
The agony and the ecstacy
Back in the early nineties when ecstasy really was ecstasy not that tepid shit that they sell to the kids these days I smuggled a couple of tabs into...
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- 3039 reads
Home, with family.
IP: All I want for Christmas
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- 1457 reads
November
At the Arts Council in Manchester
And to think I was just about to complain About the weakness of the coffee when my head turned through the glass to witness the hearse arguing in...
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- 1410 reads
Poppy
It’s my birthday today. I’m eight years old. My name is Poppy Rogers. I was born at twenty past nine in the morning on November the 11 th . Mum says...
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- 2724 reads
October
The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 4 of 4)
Diane cast her spell, like casting a boulder in a pool of Reality and causing it to ripple. The force of her will made manifest.
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- 851 reads
Liam Anders
He got up before dawn. Each day. Crawled out of bed to the stinging sound of an alarm going off beside his bed. Woke himself with stabbing cold water...
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- 961 reads