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The birdwatchers
by Kate Mills
Description: A travel story from my recent trip to Scotland as my twitching tendancies get larger!

This story has been accessed 40 times. Uploaded:Monday, June 08, 2009

"Kitchen Cupboard"
by peter david murphy
Description: This is the first chapter of my book - memoirs of my childhood really and inspired by reading Augusten Burrough's whacky book "Running with Scissors" - not that this is even a pale immitation of that crack pot! I am unsure where i am going with this but i have approximately 60 more pages of handwritten work to transcribe and it is growing! Looking forward to your comments!

This story has been accessed 62 times. Uploaded:Saturday, May 16, 2009

200 Seconds
by Patrick Collins
Description: The Post Office is running a competition to make a short film exactly 200 seconds long on the theme 'parcel'....

This story has been accessed 83 times. Uploaded:Monday, May 11, 2009

Secret afternoon pleasures...
by Kate Mills
Description: A second stab at erotic, with a slightly grotesque edge...

This story has been accessed 122 times. Uploaded:Sunday, March 08, 2009

When Iona Met Roddy
by Kate Mills
Description: some backstory from my ongoing novel with an erotic flavour

This story has been accessed 142 times. Uploaded:Sunday, March 08, 2009

Passion
by Clinton Fong
Description: Another attempt at erotica. :-)

This story has been accessed 126 times. Uploaded:Sunday, March 08, 2009

Malabar - the Cricket Coast
by peter david murphy
Description: This continues my series on India and these events took place in Cochin on the Malabar Caost. Luckily I was able to make my escape and avoid being torn limb from limb, before the cricket fanatics of India discovered my limited knowledge of the game.

This story has been accessed 138 times. Uploaded:Saturday, February 14, 2009

Secrets of How to Look and Feel Younger for the Infinite Being - Chapter 1
by Clinton Fong
Description: Chapter 1 of the book that I'm writing, "Secrets of How to Look and Feel Younger for the Infinite Being".

This story has been accessed 165 times. Uploaded:Sunday, January 25, 2009

Secrets of How to Look and Feel Younger for the Infinite Being - Introduction
by Clinton Fong
Description: Introduction to the book that I'm writing, "Secrets of How to Look and Feel Younger for the Infinite Being".

This story has been accessed 184 times. Uploaded:Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Desire
by Clinton Fong
Description: My first attempt at erotica. :-)

This story has been accessed 215 times. Uploaded:Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Bombay - slum or splendour?
by peter david murphy
Description: Here is the story up-loaded afresh! Not sure what went wronglast time.

This story has been accessed 285 times. Uploaded:Monday, November 10, 2008

Nem - Part One
by Victoria Mietchen
Description: This is the beginning of the revealing into the disappearance of Nem's paramour, Polywonder aka Sabree Thomas. It is only short and will be expanded upon. Is a fast paced, pulsing intro to their quickspun love.

This story has been accessed 284 times. Uploaded:Monday, November 10, 2008

The islanders - ch 3
by Kate Mills
Description: Finally Ruth gets to meet Iona and discover the truth about her relationship with her father...notes in bold and at the end of this chapter

This story has been accessed 277 times. Uploaded:Sunday, November 09, 2008

A Reason To Live... For So Long...
by Liz Cooper Smith
Description: About Quirk Berserk : A weekly article that rips into the ‘strange but true’ stories and celebrates the people involved in these unbelievable events. All commentary relates to 100% bona fide stories as reported by reputable (and sometimes frighteningly inaccurate) news agencies. So ‘click clack, front and back’ and get behind the ‘odd’ and cheer them on.

This story has been accessed 308 times. Uploaded:Monday, November 03, 2008

The islanders - Ch 2
by Kate Mills
Description: This is the second chapter in a bigger body of work - not finished, notes in bolds are some of my thoughs - interested to hear yours! Kate

This story has been accessed 308 times. Uploaded:Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Black Dog
by peter david murphy
Description: This was written after sitting in the Supreme Court and listening to a Judge hand down a lengthy sentence for murder last month. Why I do not know, but I seemed to spiral out of control, as if I was the one about to be deprived of my liberty. It was a frightening experience - like thinking that you have woken from a nightmare - but you are still really asleep.

This story has been accessed 359 times. Uploaded:Monday, September 01, 2008

The Lion of Rome
by Saxifrage
Description: This is a short story I'm struggling with. Trying to write from the perspective of an animal ... inspired by watching a doco on lions or something (also seen Spartacus a few too many time I guess). Early days but it's something.

This story has been accessed 345 times. Uploaded:Monday, September 01, 2008

"The Birdman of Varkala - at Varkala Beach"
by peter david murphy
Description: This is a continuation of the travels to southern India last November taken from observations made in my notebook.

This story has been accessed 332 times. Uploaded:Thursday, August 28, 2008

Ch 1 - The islanders
by Kate Mills
Description: Chapter one of a longer piece of work, not finished so comments in bold and in italics throughout

This story has been accessed 352 times. Uploaded:Monday, August 11, 2008

"On Kovalam Beach"
by peter david murphy
Description: This is a light hearted description of day one of a five day ayurvedic retreat in Southern India taken from my note book. Looking back now I can afford to smile - then it was not quite so funny!

This story has been accessed 387 times. Uploaded:Thursday, August 07, 2008

 

 

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