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I have 166 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 80756 times
and 24 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Andy Pickering
My stories
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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Not Rats
When you wake in the night it’s the not-rats that bother. The noise they don’t make and the not-chew of shoes. When they don’t bite your larynx, Or...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning--Chapter Six: Lisa - Part Two
Lisa paused, but only slightly. “Are you sure you’re not an axe murderer?” “Do I look like an axe murderer? Do I talk like an axe murderer? I’m not...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning--Chapter Six: Lisa - Part One
He got lucky and caught her on her lunch-break so she was free to talk. She had a strong West Country accent but it was innocuous enough. “It’s a red...
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