Brooklands

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I have 292 stories published in 18 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 389424 times and 120 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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We do our own stunts

I invent a back story as you dry your hair: the full-tongue snog that took four takes, your swollen lips and Linda from costume said that we should “try acting.”

Harboil: Part I.

The thing is: the sliver of shadow between the drainpipe and the stone cladding always contains a gent with some news. He waits for you to pull the map out. He overhears you repeating the password.

I used to hate my sister

I remember, I used to imagine the milk you slurped with your bran flakes was not milk, but rather, it was bleach.
Cherry

This Is Crispin

This poem is a univocalism, which means it only uses one vowel throughout. In this case 'i'. This is one of the forms employed by those wacky chaps at Oulipo, ouvrir de literature potentiale.

Cherry

The noises she made: bad counterfeit of Hollywood squealing from films mostly starring Michael Douglas where the women huff like espresso machines

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