Dan Ryder

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I have 38 stories published in one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 21707 times and 3 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Dan Ryder

My stories

Pickled.

By Dan Ryder on Mon, 11 Jan 2016

When I see the pickled stem of my own wilted soul, I clamour, But watch the marrow flow through my fingers. In ecstatic operas of sadness, I realise...
Poem
Certificate PG

Opaque Tableaux

By Dan Ryder on Sat, 19 Dec 2015

All that light is borne by the wing of the crow, His blackness a wreath and sanctuary of darkness That dips into the day and denudes it of colour...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

Gospel

By Dan Ryder on Wed, 16 Dec 2015

And speak again does my growling stomach brain, The Grendal in my bowels who screams and curses My heart with burning bile. Inside as out, the rain...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

Pulse.

By Dan Ryder on Sun, 22 Nov 2015

The branches reach down to cradle the bank, a skin of bark Growing into gnarled awnings, clutched in a morphic expression of arthritic discomfort;...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U

Yesterdays Cracks.

By Dan Ryder on Wed, 23 Sep 2015

On the subject of surface noise; the dripping of water or the distant tap of shoe on solid oak floor; a chamber of dancing dust motes in ballroom...
Surreal
Other
Certificate U

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