gristo

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I have 67 stories published in 9 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 94279 times and 34 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Mark Grist

My stories

Poem of the week

Calming influence

We used to be fast flowing back then, The corridor was awash with kids. Our walls rippled with their thoughts. Our stairwell streamed imagination, Among the roar of their depth,
Cherry

I'm really, really, really, really good at board games

A very silly grime battle-rap that I wrote for a show called 'Dead poets' - www.deadpoetry.co.uk . The boardgames were all suggested by people who emailed me.

'It just isn't right to talk to your bike!'

a piece I was asked to write for the Peterborough Green Festival. It's going to be illustrated and painted up in the centre of Peterborough, I think.
Cherry

By numbers

I wrote this following a rather harrowing lecture from the AQA exams officer on how to correctly interpret poetry. I'm writing to the students I believe he wants to create.
Cherry

Infinite Gary

Knowing him from work He was the pale, serious one. Gary. Bland, A management skull In grey wafer suit. The champion Of protocol, A self brainwashed recruit. A silky tie, a buggy eye,

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