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I have 17 stories published in
one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 13570 times
and 5 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Joanne Cody
My stories
Ways of Looking at Silk
Newly unwrapped flesh, silk Protected from light, untainted. Inhale the scent of powdered milk. The murderer grips her hair, the tendons on her throat Pulled taut.
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- 541 reads
Primary School Lunchtime
The room is completely square, painted an uninspiring beige and gargantuan from my seven-year-old perspective on the world.
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- 841 reads
The Dentist - (Read Aloud)
Dentist reception. Leather bench Free pens. Metal-edged coffee table Sore teeth. Ether stench. Stretched beneath the pendulum beam Gleaming steel, latex fingers Search clenched teeth.
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- 585 reads
Lost and Found
My Mother wept, when she lost Her baby, a boy. She slept all day and I Made my own sandwiches. I crept past her door So as not to annoy And I played with my soldiers Until he came home.
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- 570 reads
Cleethorpes
This dark underbelly of the pier is shielded by oil-slicked boulders And the threat of youths with their beer cans and fires. An ebony crab scuttles into a lichen-smothered bottle,
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