Picks of the Month
April
Something Hard Inside Him (Part 1)

Short story in 2 parts.
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March
Sunrise

Over 300 British and Commonwealth soldiers were executed on The Western Front during the First World War, most for 'cowardice' or 'desertion in the face of the enemy'. Yet in spite of what we have long known about PTSD, and the fact that some of the victims were too young to have been serving in the army, successive governments refused to issue a blanket pardon for them until 2006. Their convictions, however, have never been quashed, which means their 'offences' remain.
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- 5057 reads
The day after yesterday

...on millpond water, I gripped this groaning mast...
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- 4331 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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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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- 2903 reads
January
Removed for submission

Image: © José Manuel Suárez/Wikimedia Commons
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Traffic

How many new cousins have you got? Four. Three with scars and sallow eyes. How many new sisters today? Dad's brought six. Four speak French and...
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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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Home, with family, with scars.

IP: All I want for Christmas
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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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- 3918 reads