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I have 365 stories published in 12 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 480250 times and 147 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Not repeating

By span on Mon, 20 Mar 2006

Finally not repeating I finally realised you were a good friend when I smoked too much at the party, stumbled up the stairs to find you drunk and dancing up against the kitchen cupboards. You held my head under your collar bone,
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Accident

By span on Mon, 20 Mar 2006

Accident We danced in the road and didn't see the truck coming. In A&E they found the mother of pearl pot in your pocket, filled with pills, all ivory and lace and lovely. They want to know how we found a Christmas tree at half past three on a Saturday morning in March.
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How to stop me humming

By span on Mon, 13 Mar 2006

Dear random stranger I saw today: I hate you and your bag of spanish oranges, your red scarf knotted up and round your mouth. I wish the strings of steam from your nostrils would add up to a smoke room with no window out.
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I want a movement

By span on Fri, 10 Mar 2006

A lunch break poem. Just met some girls like this. Bored. Span
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Cherry

Wrong

By span on Fri, 24 Feb 2006

Children avoided the conker trees closest to the road, four people tripped over doors mats in Norwich, three phone lines went dead, and they were not on trains.
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