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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 12
Chapter 12. Harbour Hopping. A gust of wind ruffled the cat’s whiskers. It did not blink. Amanderella leaned on the rail, watching the water shift...
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Bron-39
Continued from Chapter 38 Grace levered herself out of the front seat of the van; John-John and Bron had insisted that she take pride of place in the...
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Memoir of a Disco Dancer. Prologue. The Bluebells v Tracey Emin. Sunday
Prologue: The Bluebells v Tracey Emin. Sunday Good morning. Come on in. Let’s have one of our pointless conversations, again. But I must warn you, I’...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 11
Chapter 11. All at Sea. The harbour was brighter than when she had left it, as though the sun had decided to take an interest in her plans...
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Building C - Part Two
On a Friday, six weeks in, Coy was pulling from aisle eight when his scanner died. Battery. He walked to the charging station at the dock, swapped it...
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Building C - Part One
Coy Shumate clocked in at 10:47 PM on a Tuesday in March. Thirteen minutes early because the bus ran ahead of schedule and the break room had coffee...
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The Fat Ones
An excerpt from my (stalled) novel-in-progress The Tallow Man — told entirely from the perspective of a herd of wild Andean guinea pigs ( Cavia...
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Life on Berth
Johnny the bottlenose dolphin nudged his friend, Cider with his smooth snout, ‘Watch out now, the monster is starting up her engines.’ ‘Oh no,...
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Way Down: September–October 1977
The heat had broken by the first week of September, leaving the air heavy and uncertain. The long drought of ’76 was a distant memory now, supplanted...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 8 real one!
Chapter 8. Spectacle makers call. Amanderella had barely finished writing Algersome is for someone else when the doorbell rang again. Mrs Gaffletter...
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Platypus
A tale of how nature's strangest creature was made from leftovers.
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Good Intentions. Amanderella did not start with “Where is Burkoland?” That would have been far too obvious, and far too dependent on other...
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Car Slaves
Sitting in the middle of the recent Hari Raya traffic jam, I remember an old cartoon showing a Martian peering into a telescope directed at Earth. He...
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Wembley Praise Day
The seven men had walked down to Wembley Stadium and were standing outside. They had parked their seven seater Vauxhall car half a mile away. One of...
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The Way We Were: Another Brick in the Wall, December 1979
Mr Evans hated me. Mr Evans was the D eputy H eadmaster, but also our M aths teacher, and much to his dismay I was the best at maths in my year,...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 8
Chapter 9. So where is the Bangolin tree? Amanderella tapped her notebook with her sharpened pencil. “Please tell me as much as you know.” Mr...
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Circus Soleil and The Empress Card
She meets the balloon sculptor at the lido where the water is black and salted. When the tide comes in, the swells slop and jive her towards his...
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The Way We Were: House of Fun, May 1982
Goran’s house was perfectly located, it was on the edge of the Old Court estate where half of us lived, and just a playing field away from the...
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The Way We Were: Abba-esque EP, June 1992
I like blondes. Agnetha From Abba, for example, or Yvonne, from my philosophy tutorial group. I’d liked her all year, but it’s difficult to chat...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 7
Chapter 7. A bunch of lilies. Algersome Eartrembler arrived at Mrs Gaffletter’s with a bouquet of damp lilies and a voice that rumbled like a heavy...
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