Brooklands

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I have 292 stories published in 18 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 389704 times and 120 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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My stories

We're mostly scared and lonely

I hate Haiku but, for some reason, I've written one.

Eating Out

There are dumpsters simply brimming with left overs and send backs, bin bags full of lummy slop: coconut pannacotta truffle honey mozzarella California bouillabaisse cassoulet of summer beans and even when you mush the food together it still tastes pretty good but then, you see, there are these down-by-luck table-salt of the earth types: smelling like asparagus piss, no money, no grub, little half-healed cuts on their nose bridges,

Please work hard and be remarkably happy

Dress well, or else, dress quickly. Count yourself among the upper percentile. Admire your dart-like eye for a faker. Pass on the wisdom that you have eked from your short, full life, thus far: energy, ambition and self-belief.

Violence, sex, pornography

Violence The wedding band is a little too small; he grips her hand at the wrist and works it over the knuckle.
Cherry

The Child-Catcher

On the beach, with her palms spread like a prayer book she awaits her son's arrival. The beach is a wet towel; the sky gestates. The boy is not a meteor.

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