TheShyAssassin

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I have 164 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 79518 times and 22 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Andy Pickering

 

My stories

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...

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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A Sad Poem

Hate seeps from love like air from a tyre. Imperceptibly. For love and tyres, What's left is useless.

At My Mother's Graveside

All the times she did, And all the times she didn't. Love comes in spurts, the Voidoid said, But when it's not spurting it's hurting. Visceral love...

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