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I have 11 stories published in
2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 9742 times
and 6 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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My stories
The Falling
When the supplies ran out we turned against the environment that bred us. When everything stopped we took the furniture inside: bollards and all. We lived in the rubble of the big ideas,
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- 569 reads
The Abandoned Plot
All the clues were in place: I felt the constant in/out flow. We heard of a spate of logos, unmanned desks, gyratory reworked into an accident waiting to happen; the smell of shellfish
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- 672 reads
Exits
We moved through the place like ghosts, really, wearing oversized coats, the petrified stares of stuffed mammals as masks. We crept backstage, rearranged the things we thought
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- 1169 reads
Dreams
At the dead centre of a dream where X marks the spot the light switched off, or would have; at the end of the garden where the wild badger stirs in his sett and the alley, damp with fox, hexed
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- 638 reads
The Funnel
I sunk a borehole deep into the city. A rolled-up wedge of cardboard inserted in the ear. A face appears at the window, needing something from the morning, conversation maybe
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- 650 reads