TheShyAssassin
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I have 166 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 107450 times
and 24 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Andy Pickering
My stories
Weep Till Forever
Weep till forever, morning won't come. Long for the closeness that only she brings. You thought that you had her held tight in your arms But she...
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A Sixties Childhood
On a windswept Yorkshire hill The snowdrops fight daffodils, For space on a tiny terrace Caterpillars starve and butterflies wane In jam jars of...
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Parenthood
So kiss your daughter And hug your son, Till the night takes your reason And the love burns your bones. They laugh at you now, For a while they still...
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On Platform Two of Basingstoke Station One Night in October
Trains, on a Saturday night. They thunder in. Pause for a while. They thunder out. They carry the lost and the loveless. Through the black dark to a...
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My Brexit Poem
Bring me wine and whisky I will 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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