TheShyAssassin

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I have 164 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 79515 times and 22 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Andy Pickering

 

My stories

The Three Halves of Martyn Manning: Chapter Seven - Karen - Part One

He was settling into a routine now. Once the kids were in bed and Caroline was in her room, he’d sit down at the kitchen table and browse the dating...

The Sins of the Fathers

Quiet nights. Quiet frights. Quiet chimes. Quiet crimes.

The Journey Home

A girl in a stained checked shirt, Ran through fields and fell in the dirt, And dreamt of love to come. A boy in a grammar school tie, Was shocked...
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Absence of Self

Abscence of self. Knowing, not knowing what I am. I lived, did I? In this world of tears. Curse the mother’s lonely egg, The father’s anxious sperm...
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My (Re-Posted) Brexit Poem

Bring me wine and whisky And I'll weep for our salvation And piss my fury on the bleaching bones of a once great broken nation. I won't take the...

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