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you cry, you die. chapter 6
The evening air was thick with the heavy heat of Bangkok and the rich scent of street food frying lemongrass and garlic as Vic fell into an easy,...
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Good Buddy (2)
He brought the bin in on the Friday morning. He had come off shift at seven and gotten home at twenty past, and the light was coming in flat and...
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The Innocent Bystander - Part 3
The final part of the story...
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The Innocent Bystander - Part 2
Tom's problems get worse... Read what happens in the next instalment... Part 3 Follows
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The Innocent Bystander - Part 1
Tom finds himself out of his depth... The first part of a three-part story... (other parts follow now)
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The Murder of the Lord Mayor of
Nobody in the town quite knew what to say when news reached them that their newly elected mayor had been shot in the head in broad daylight. He had...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 8.
Chapter Eight. The Plot (and the jam)thickens. The porter was now vibrating with a fear that was greater even than his dread of Matron Nipp. He...
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Spellbound Chapter 13.
Chapter Thirteen. The Land of the Wraiths. When Naeve heard the word wraith, she squeaked. “I thought wraiths were just pretend monsters to scare...
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The Bungalow-12
Continued from Chapter 11: “Northern Ireland security – that could be a very lucrative field.” Was there a tiny pause before he said ‘field’? Hawke...
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A delightful but momentous task
My sister discovered this box (see thumbnail above). It is full of letters from my father to my mother during the second world war (he was in the...
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6.1 A Bare Setup
Days later, on 27 th September, the Supreme Court ruled out the second round of voting and a new date was not announced. Concerned political parties...
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Letters on the Mat
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Appetite
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The holding cell is smaller than Lindsay’s walk-in closet was, in the old apartment, and this seems to her the most important fact about the room —...
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Good Buddy (1)
He came up out of sleep at ten past twelve with the fan going and the room the color of a paper bag. The blinds in the front bedroom were the ones...
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Spellbound Chapter 12.
Chapter Twelve. Sophie Explodes. Sophie enjoyed going to market with Aunt Meg far more than she expected. They sold the cheese and fish quickly, and...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. St. Gal’s Free Hospital. St Gal’s was a grim, soot-blackened block of Victorian masonry that seemed to absorb the light. Being a Free...
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Tobruk, Or Not Tobruk?
A breakfast meeting to remember, and one that transformed my way of broadening my outlook on the world.
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you cry, you die. chapter 5
The ceiling fan above the counter in the tea room turned in a slow, hypnotic rhythm, cutting through the thick Bangkok afternoon heat and stirring...
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Seals
Seals They had rented a house on the coast for a week. She was looking through some of the leaflets the owner had left and announced “Oh look! There...
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Fingernails
Sun bathes, spraying lotion in great swathes across pallid skin. Water takes the shore back in. Endless motion, grains beneath fingernails your teeth...
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