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I have 35 stories published in
3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 25376 times
and 15 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Tony Scanlon
My stories
Domestic Helper
Domestic Helper for Clara Hendrawati Night after night she has woken alone and watched the luminous hands crawling to an empty morning. She wonders what she did, or failed to do, what sin it was that brought her here to servitude
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- 697 reads
Phoenix
Phoenix Smoke still coils in the cooling autumn air, people grope amongst the ruins, hopelessly, probing down, where secret fires still smoulder...
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- 663 reads
Questions
Questions I have watched and rewatched all day The dreadful images of your chosen end, The fireball of your self-immolation, And I am no closer to...
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- 734 reads
E: Final Exam
Final Exam Where tension is palpable in muted halls heads bow over desks and exhausted children jump through the final hoops, nose-balance the last...
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- 653 reads
Kept In
Kept In On his last day at the school he is kept in: all that day clouded by the dread of the afternoon. The last bell rings, his mates gather a few...
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- 625 reads