Colours
This is a collection of stories I wrote in response to an Inspiration Point a few weeks ago - something along the lines of pick a colour and write something. So anyway, here they are. The stories are all connected, but are also (mostly) intended to work as stand-alone pieces.
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Red
He loved that dress on her. Red, neatly fitting around her slim upper body, skirt flowing in petals to just above her knee. Tiny LEDs around the...
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Blue
One red. One green. He watched them out of a greasy, cloudy window – the woman in the red dress, the man in the forest green shirt. On a street...
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Silver
Drayton walked. He just walked. He couldn't go back to Nina's place, to her awful couch and her scared, pitying eyes; but he couldn't stand the...
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Saffron
Tara stood on the low wall surrounding the fountain. She was shouting, but she'd almost forgotten what she was shouting about. The slogans all ran...
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Grey
Nina Hockson sat curled on her aqua-blue couch, legs pulled up against her chest, watching the sunrise. She kept thinking one day she would see...
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Green
It got harder over time to keep the garden going. It wasn't just in terms of the time it took, the other demands on her, the tiredness. All those...
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White
It was time to go. Erica stood on a steel platform, staring up at the ship. It was massive. She somehow hadn't expected it to be so huge. The hull...
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Black
On a good night the sky was black, out here in the Larkworth Hills. Better, some said, to be higher up, because the algae didn't bloom as well so...
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