MistakenMagic
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I have 167 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 998194 times
and 109 of my stories have been cherry picked.
3 of my 3,073 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 3 votes
My stories
Espresso Martini
"a triangle of black ice with an archipelago of coffee beans dotted across its thin layer of cream. A small miracle of vodka and coffee combined - I hold it aloft like the Holy Grail."
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Requiem
It hits me every time I come back: the smell of his soap in the bathroom.
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Epigraph
Now the days are as sunny as peanut butter, but I stay inside watching re-runs of Blackadder, because I loved Captain Kevin Darling before I loved you.
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Don Paterson Didn't Eat His Venison
I bake her a tray of shortbread and tell her the more explicit version of ‘The Secret Life of Dragonflies’ to try and take her mind off the poisonous, unwanted orb swelling in her side.
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My Bookcase, 4am
Marie de France's 'Bisclavret' howls at the moon like a wolf. 'The Assistant' mutters to itself in Yiddish. The window is full to the brim with stars, and poems rise up like unanswered prayers.
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