Picks of the Month

July

Cherry
Pick of the Month

The things we do for love

“So, if I hear one more time that you have comments on Alexia's piano playing, I will be on your doorstep again. Do you understand? But then it will...

June

Gold cherry
Story of the week
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Now Is The Summer Of Our Discontent

A bit of a rant. The odd bit of totally unnecessary foul language. The views expressed are strictly the author's own.
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Gold cherry
Poem of the week
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parched

parched nine years since waking in cold piss often mine sometimes others nine years since smashing up my face falling over falling down falling for...
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May

Gold cherry
Pick of the Month

"Book of All Answers"

The title of the book on the shelf was ‘Book of All Answers’ and Amy laughed when she spied it. “If only it were." She dusted the book along with its...
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Gold cherry
Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

Dusk

The girl with the softest edges Who summons the stars And the scent of the rose Who unburdens the sun, scattering its fiery embers Her name is Dusk...
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April

Gold cherry
Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

Doubt

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March

Gold cherry
Pick of the Month

stars over kennet

stars over kennet star lit stones wrap around me and i am held rapt for a pitch-black procession the memory of daylight sleeping beneath frosted ice...
Gold cherry
Pick of the Month

Windfall.

We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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February

Gold cherry
Pick of the Month

Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024

Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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Cherry
Pick of the Month

An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World

A serrated bottle cap. A triangle of green glass. These are unusual shells: strange, immortal tools that she collects during a morning’s foraging...
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