Picks of the Month
February
Flare
The headlights picked out individual snowflakes, quivering cotton drops spliced from the gauzy storm and suspended in their yellow orbs. 'You have to...
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- 2579 reads
January
Breeder of Black Cats
Opal pads across the back of the couch, leaps down onto the arm, and over to Emmalynn. She rubs her soft black head against Emmalynn's hip, seeking...
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- 1347 reads
Bristol Blue Glass
When I saw the missed calls, I fed my dread with sugar Bracing myself with gulps of vanilla milkshake and chocolate wafers Although I should have...
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- 2581 reads
December
Have You Seen My Sister?
Have you seen my sister? My kin My skin and blister She lives inside a dream Between two scenes She is a drifter Her smile is just a wisp And her...
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- 1055 reads
These Games We Play with the Universe
“He's beautiful.” I lean past Tasha to get a better look. And she's right, he is. He's unstintingly gorgeous. I put him in his very early twenties,...
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- 1083 reads
October
The Matrix Problem
One morning, I was woken early by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, to find Alun in an excitable state. “What’s...
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- 1434 reads
Branwell Clinic
As I'm finding it difficult to write at the moment, I will continue to let my daughter Julia (Overthetop1) live on through her own writing, until I am ready. Coral Jane (seashore).
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- 3862 reads
September
trifecta
1. The last man I loved made me a dream catcher of dental floss and blonde hair. This is him, the last of him. We’re driving through a phlegmy drag...
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- 3161 reads
Lakehouse
The headings are a nod to Iris Murdoch's 'The Sea, The Sea', a wonderful book :)
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- 3568 reads
August
Sticks
'There was a grove, dark with holm-oaks, below the Aventine, at sight of which you would say: ‘There’s a god within'. The centre was grassy, and...
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- 3756 reads