hejira j

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I have 87 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 67379 times and 42 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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My stories

Cherry

Farewell, Jonathan.

Jonathan, you have been my mate Ooh, for about 5 minutes now But it is time to part ways, my friend We must be as the proverbial Twilight boats sailing towards A new dawn, the grit of nostalgia

Two skirts I have never worn

A grown-up's skirt from Spitalfields office black with some kind of origami sash - I could never figure how to tie it without looking like a bunny girl or gaping.
Cherry

Buddhist Class

It is hard to feel enlightened When last night's peas are doing the rumba In your lower gut And you can't pronounce the name Of your leader: Mah-tru-dah-shu Mih-tra-din-she Moh-tru-don-sha
Cherry

this is how we would say goodbye

an acrostic fashioned from soba noodles spelling out s-e-e y-a with the first word being serendipity which was also a film starring John Cusack. Or- a capoiera sequence
Cherry

Week

Imagine if the sky cracked open like a cheap plate and through the cracks seeped tiny coach-horses topped by even tinier men and the tinier men held aloft scripted banners

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