Picks of the Month
January
PROFILE
Frank and I were introduced at a party in Argentina, where we both had been living for some months. He was English and I was Canadian, but we were...
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- 4002 reads
She said her name was Winter
After the party, I marked her Just as the colours drained In her gelid crystal necklace Blowing out the lights And hushing the wild creatures She was...
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- 3358 reads
December
The Flat on Ashburn Hill
Another ghost story
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- 2128 reads
Barley Ghosts
Something stalks where no man ever whispered, twisted the stem after harvest here, where land has always been arable. Reaping, ploughing, sewing...
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- 1979 reads
November
The Woman on the Other Side of the Screen
I wish I didn't have occasion to write this. It is a companion piece to "The Man on the Other End of the Phone" Image is a screenshot
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- 3255 reads
October
A Real Doctor
‘Oh, give over, you’re not even a real doctor!’ Dr Oetker was in a very dark place and had been for a number of days. The sale of sprinkles had...
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- 3706 reads
Centre of its own Universe
Smol Doodle whimsy
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- 3384 reads
September
Small Town Insurrection
I walked through the maze of streets and alleyways, trying to remember how to reach the town square. Seagulls circled above me, swooping low over my head and crying out like I was a scrap of food to be snaffled in their beaks.
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- 2726 reads
In Lucid Dreams
From out of the woods river wends its way along banks of tall grasses, thistles share in this beauty with wild flowers; while weeping willows catch...
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- 7902 reads
August
Sea Mist
I am trying to write a ghost story every month. This one is about sailing.
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- 2264 reads