Good Grief
By Gunnerson
These are mostly short stories of fiction that I put together in a collection, written between 1999 and 2007. As I build my ABCtales collection, a few chapters from novels may appear. I'm not averse to rants and raves, either.
What genre? I've never been much good at describing my own work. It's usually pretty dark, normally about society's shortcomings but with a twist of humour to keep an even keel.
I've always wanted to write for TV; a nice hour-long Play For Today. Most of the stories would squeeze into an hour's worth of telly.
Not the most bubbly ra-ra networker, this is the first time I've joined a writers' site. Here goes..let's just hope I don't slit my wrists after the vitriol in your cutting analyses of my work has finally sunk in.
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Beans on Toast
Looking for goodies in the dustbin of life
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'Do you suffer from depression?'
‘Do you suffer from depression?’ she asked. ‘Well..,’ I began, but there was more.
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'Your Missions Will Be Saving American Lives'
Jason Bourne makes James Bond look like Ed Milliband with a tampon up his arse. Bourne’s musical score’s much more edgy. Bond’s sounds like the looping of an old lady’s fart.
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200 red words
200 red words
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2013
I don’t know why I did it. Actually, that’s a lie. It was the money. Root of all evil and all that.
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A Historical Day For A Better England
Nick Clegg reminiscing his first day as Deputy PM
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A Long Time Coming
It is said that, over the course of this year, 3500 people will sleep rough in London.
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A poem, by Deadend Jobsworth, MP
My dear friend, Deadend Jobsworth of Gluttonbury, MP for Numberwang, has penned a poem in memory of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’.
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A Quiet Riot
A searching and fearless moral inventory of our great land's character defects, as told by a defecting spy who wishes to remain anonymous
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Adam's End -London's latest art phenomenon
A London art gallery is displaying an erect penis from the body of a sex addict.
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Addressing the Concerns of the Inconsolable
Leon’s eyes popped open.
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Alan is an Ambulance!
People are very careless when they want to be. Take Alan, a friend who works hard and likes a bargain.
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Cash Cow
God, I was stupid. I don’t know how I got into it and I know it’s easy to blame things on people but you know what boyfriends are like. One thing leads to another and then you’re hooked.
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Comedy persona for Mr Steve Coogan
Male; Ronald Dollar, aged 46.
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Cut and Shut
Doom and gloom
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David and Deirdre
David’s day started naturally enough. Being a Saturday, he took the eight-minute bath as opposed to the usual four-minute power-shower.
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Death Warmed Up
My unusual experience of the after-life
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The Best Plasterer in the World
The best plasterer in the world lived in Wigan. It’s fact.
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The Calculator
The silver solar-powered calculator seemed harmless enough where it was.
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The Fast Lane
Sometimes, but not very often, adversity brings out the best in us.
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We Are But Smoke
Introduction to ‘We Are But Smoke’.
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The Elaborate Case of the Nose-Picking Killing Machine
Gerry had just retired when his wife, Hilda, died of a night-time stroke. They’d been married for forty-one years.
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Joy of Joys
The phone went. It was Boots in Putney. They’ve got my nicotine patches. I said I’d be there in a few days to pick them up.
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Treading Carefully
‘You look like a street person,’ she said. ‘Funny, that,’ I replied, leaving it there. Maybe that’s why she gave the next job to someone else.
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Oh Well
It was on a heady day in August that James saved a man’s life. Not unusually, he’d been drinking pretty much all day. Being a Saturday meant that he had his wages.
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Dogs are Gods
DOGS ARE GODS I was always a happy and kind dog by nature, as most Labradors are.
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The Importance of a Lift-Operative Explained
Deep into the worst recession in British history, it has been decided that the MPs’ lift in the Houses of Parliament is in desperate need of an operative, a button-pusher, someone to steady the ship
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The Top Ten Most Irreverent Ripostes of a Hitman to a Dead Man's Last Request
‘No, it’s Eastenders in ten minutes.’ ‘No, I’ve already done three today.’ ‘No, I’m dying for a slash.’ ‘No, you’re not a bird.’
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Twitter and Bisted
Me attempting to be Sharpe's Wilt
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THE VOW, or writing fiction by willing fact.
Two boys on a mission
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None Of The Above
It couldn't be.
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The Time Traveller
Praying time-traveller wins gold medal and make fools of world leaders, in two parts
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The Time Traveller, Part Two
The second part of the story
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One For The Rude
In an affluent London village, a man of no fixed abode has been caught sleeping at Lloyds bank on the high street.
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wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ceroc are doing one of their nights again. Loud music is in the air.
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Welcome to my world
I woke up today, as you do, and immediately remembered my last thought before going to sleep last night. If I told you what it was, you’d think I was coocoocobana.
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World Cup Fever
After an exhausting day on the golf course, the England squad returned to their complex in a gleaming entourage of bullet-proof limousines.
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The Critical Sell-By Date
When I wake up and my back’s itching in the place I can’t get at, I might think of the times when I had a girlfriend to scratch it for me. ‘Up a bit, down a bit. That’s it!’
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Harmony
Started writing this after watching something on the box about William Morris.
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The Nerve Centre
Parents ignore kids to develop property and go mad
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The Yesteryears
my go at Stories For Pakistan.
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I Can't Believe I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
This now has a different ending to the one I originally posted. It's about a neurotic housewife's analysis of what she believes to be a superior spread.
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Two Peas in a Pod
Light refreshment
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Tardy Reynolds
Before anyone gets any funny ideas and wrongly labels me, this is satire aimed at and taken from the dire political stance posed by an over-liberal/under-intellectual/ultra-underachieving government.
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J'Accuse!
I can’t believe this is happening. My whole world has been turned upside down by a stranger I haven’t even met.
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Lord Atichoo-Atichoo
A brave new plan for homelessness by a brave new government (reworked)
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You Can't Kid a Kidder
Jim had always looked up to his father as a child. He was, after all, a high-ranking police officer, a man admired and revered by all.
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The Big Society Explained..... part one
The first of two installments on the Big Society. The first is based on life today and the second a speculative picture of the near future.
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Shhtchwong
A weepy with an uplifting ending
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Just another day in paradise
‘Just another day in paradise,’ Hamish hummed as he entered the state-of-the-art council buildings.
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Kelvin's Story
A crime that goes right
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Wayne Kerr
A super-injunction scenario seen through the eyes of a young, impressionable girl following an affair with a football star.
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Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes
A fly saves a marriage.
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General Knowledge
Never the twain shall meet in humanity
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Technology Has Its Uses
Death-tech anarchists rule the roost.
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Let's Start Again, Mr Cameron
A letter from a pleading child
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Here One Day, Gone The Next
You were taken from this world by a sick man without conscience, who was free to kill for years and years, free to laugh as his comic strip unfolded, all but encouraged by the hapless brigade of blind
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