Short Stories
By hadley
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Dead Leaves
We were walking together deep in the countryside. It was a bright, but chilly, autumn day. The wind was blowing, twisting the dead leaves
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A Flower
"If I take your hand, and lead you away from here," she said, looking up at his face. "If we walk together through shady, sun-dappled
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A Ghost Story
"...on those few occasions I did come back here, I stayed away from all the old places. Too many ghosts I didn't want to face again, I suppose."
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A Mermaid
There is a beach, the sand almost white, colourless. The sky is bright, early morning blue. The sea is lazy, calm, whispering its secrets to the...
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Barn
Robert sat on top of the garden wall, looking over at the field. The old barn looked dark and forbidding alone at the edge of the field, next to the...
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Barn
Robert sat on top of the garden wall, looking over at the field. The old barn looked dark and forbidding alone at the edge of the field,
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Closing Down
Looking back now, I realised it was the death of rock ‘n’ roll for me too, the time when the fantasy turned too real and the rock ‘n’ roll dream became one more nightmare.
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Darkness
It was all silence. It seemed like some frozen, never-ending moment. Her hand reached out into the darkness, searching.
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Dead Leaves
We were walking together deep in the countryside. It was a bright, but chilly, autumn day. The wind was blowing, twisting the dead leaves into the...
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The Dancing Sex Nuns of the Tenth Quadrant
Eventually, one of the archaeological investigators decided that it must be religious, so they sent for an expert. A few weeks later, she appeared at the site.
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Rain On The Window
As a guilt-ridden middle-class politics student, she needed a working-class hero, and I… well, at the time, I had nothing better to do.
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Socks
“That was the time when you kept losing all your socks, can't you remember?” She seemed surprised that Martin could not remember such a momentous event in their marriage.
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One of Those Days
It was one of those days. Ben seemed unable to get going at all. It was as though the whole world had turned into some thick, but invisible, soup or glue around him.
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The Mystery of the Lupins
Of course, it goes without saying that the lupins were a bit of a mystery, after all you don’t expect that, do you? …Or do you?
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Felt Hat
She arrived in a flurry of snow, hat, coat, umbrella and explanations. As usual she talked too much and I didn't need explanations. I saw what I could see.
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