Brooklands

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I have 292 stories published in 18 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 384623 times and 120 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Welcome, weary traveller, into this musty tab: take your finger off the mouse wheel, tune your ear to the centrifugal hard drive - it's discus of memory and memory of history. All the places
Cherry

Susan makes me think of something

There was enough room for a sparrow to perch in the waiter’s earlobe. A sparrow, its ears burning, flew in through the back door, bounced on the windows, and then left.
Cherry

Distances in distances

I had boring dreams the night before we met. Seagulls were stunt kites shaped like seagulls. Meanwhile, outside the dream: the roof coughed up slate, a mad gate did its nut, unhinged.
Cherry

Breakfast

Give me your hand, my dear, dip your fingers in to this bowl of tepid porridge. Close your eyes.
Cherry

The Gambler

He lets women spin through his mind. Blurred at first, the reel slows – a cherry, a seven, then stops at Maria from the library.

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