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I have 279 stories published in 12 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 443581 times and 145 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Jude Edman

 

My stories

Cherry

Art Class in Brookwood Cemetery

Leaving the Cemetery Pale road to sketch the headstones strewn like irregular verbs across this mirror of opposites. We have cautious connections; the boy Baron who died in his car-seat

Last One to Leave on the Last Day of Term

Things will happen when we are away a new coat of floor polish, the piano will be tuned.

Running from Shame

This is what you have feared too long opening old maps to see a pawn shop for freedom selling bottles at eight a.m. You can run from the secret desecration with shame’s sad flotsam
Cherry

I Can't Feel The Guns

Shooting that occurred on boxing day 2007 next to my block on the Aylesbury Estate. The body lay unnoticed for more than 24 hours. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7164679.stm
Cherry

Ockham Mill

It took me too long to understand the sharp angst of winter; the frozen canals, the loss of life to a deep

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