johnshade
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I have 132 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 143711 times
and 103 of my stories have been cherry picked.
My stories
A Postcard from Grenfell
A long conversation with a friend on the topic of recent tragedies and the gaping inequalities revealed therein inspired — or maybe required — me to...
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A Marriage
His chicken head teeters on a long scrag of neck. She seems to have no neck at all: a medicine ball topped with a limp brown wig rests on buffalo's...
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A Passenger Incident
Trains will be delayed on the Victoria line. This is due to a passenger incident at Highbury and Islington station. Customers are strongly advised to...
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Soft Play
Zerex watched his kids play happily, violently with the styrofoam blocks and bendy swords, the punchbag hung from the roof of the padded plastic fort...
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What Are You Writing Daddy?
Nothing. Just a story. What's it about? Nothing really. Just a man in a taxi going to an airport. It's really boring. Let me hear it daddy. You want...
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