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I have 575 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 631888 times and 323 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Cherry

Contender

The guy is Zoot suited and Chelsea booted. He is drinking a South African red of a bad year that had travelled via Oslo on waves as tall as the barman's tales. He stands on a floor that is bubblegum sticky in a cloud of Marlboro blue smoke and inhales deeply.

Untitled

I've lit the match that extinguishes I've burned it all to the black and blown there's my ashes dirtying this moment that cannot be swept

HENRY MILLER AT DENNY'S

O.K . So we are driving to Sacramento. The usual crew: Liz, Troy, Paula me and you. We stop at Denny's for something to eat. A shake, a bake and a bellyache. Troy tells me to look in the corner.

Nineteen And The Mermaids

Found on the stormed beach by a walker out on his own after a Christmas lunch for one was a sand letter and three pairs of shoes which were in truth unbefitting for terrain such as this He read with interest

Long Goodbye to Stephen Chambers

Warm beer, rosary beads, clutched for nothing but comfort. This knotted man is undone. Nightly. He two steps the boardwalk, as if dancing to Basie. Memories thrumming his head, a persistant moth.

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