TheShyAssassin
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I have 166 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 118478 times
and 24 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Andy Pickering
My stories
A Sad Poem
Hate seeps from love like air from a tyre. Imperceptibly. For love and tyres, What's left is useless.
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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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- 580 reads
Manhatten
Come to me October, With your dawn mists and low, heavy boughs. I will thrill to your chill. I will sing at your silence. And when November's icy...
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I Know You...
She tugs hard on her leggings. It pleases her to please me. Her chin dips imperceptibly as she turns to look at me. Like a novelty nodding dog on the...
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- 543 reads
October
I would picture myself on my final bed. Reflecting. The nurses would be kind, the morphine warming. And I'd console myself. After all, my Darwinian...
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- 503 reads