Cherrypicked stories
Antilogical Elements
Indeed I woke up stunned with a dozen or more guilts on my conscience, from those born of trivial violations I’d forgotten over the years to those...
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Walking The Plank
I don't need your cutlass to point the way to doom. I edge along the slim oak diving board without regret. No fear in me despite the queer jeers of...
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The Tiny Easter Teddy
Easter, even the word itself sounds full, round around the edges, pregnant with the promise of things to come. Falling in spring, within the swell...
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The Life Of Jim ( Part 2)
It’s Wednesday and I’ve just had two days' work. My mate Tony has got his own Painting and Decorating company. If he’s short of labour, he gives me a...
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A Tapestry in Eighteen Panels
Panel I: The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers A shield quartered with dolphins and sea-lions, gold and azure, a trident piercing waves. Lions wear...
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Arrival in Hallowmere
The train station at Hallowmere was notable for two things: first, it was the sort of place that made you wonder whether civilisation had ever quite...
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Safe Home
Safe Home I’ll protect you from the hooded claw Keep the vampires from your door. When the chips are down I’ll be around with my undying Death-...
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Fish Face
You may be familiar with the story ‘The Office Goth,’ which was posted online last year on a well-known writing website. Well Lorraine Denning, the...
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“The T-shirt says it all”
– or does it? …
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It's Grim Up North
Whilst strolling gently down twilight road I encountered a man worsted by sombre load His knees were bent and shoulders cowed And his manner ungainly...
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Birthday Blues by Alfred Muggins
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11/12/24 Alfred woke up well 45 minutes earlier than his alarm was due to go off, to set him on the path to his wife’s sister’s house to accompany...
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Recalled (Episode 24 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Gwladys, Aefelthrith and Dolly are reminiscing, not always fondly.
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The Life Of Jim. ( Part 1)
I’ve woken up in some weird places. A car park in the middle of a housing estate, a neighbour's garden, a bathtub in a house owned by someone I didn’...
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Body of Evidence
It never ceases to amaze me how adults can be so gullible. When Geoffrey Catchpole was noticed doing his own shopping at the village store and...
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Bloody, brawling business chapter 1
He put his arm behind him to catch his fall as he stumbled backwards. The rough pavement’s sharp rocks tore into the skin covering his elbow as he...
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Sandwiches, Wittgenstein and a Log
In the summer of 1991, James and I decided to make the last Grand Tour. He called it that, of course — I was just along for the ride. James had been...
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Cult Busters
Gary wanted a lift to work at 7 o' clock in the morning. He had explained that the hospital where he worked was in an awkward location and that it...
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In Slumber
‘How did you come by it?’ I asked. ‘It came by me,’ answered Lavery. ‘Was here long before I set up shop. When the Jesuits ran the place. Ida’d...
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The Department of War
There is no Department of Peace
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