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Rat Trap: November 1978
By the time Alan clocked off from the Plessey site on Sutton Road, the sky was already a black and starless maw. The kind of hungry darkness that...
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The Way We Heard. Love Was All Around Us and so was PTSD.
You know I love you... Andy was back up at the fruit machine. Bright lights of a big win on his face. He was half-listening, half-tuned in like The...
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No Forwarding Address - Part Four
He told the deputy he was all right. It came out steady. The young man bent back to his box, and the year settled around the reporter again. Nineteen...
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No Forwarding Address - Part Three
He spread the letters under the lamp, the gray ribbon coiled on the table where he had worked it loose, and meant to read them all before morning. He...
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No Forwarding Address - Part Two
He had been young the night they found the postmaster. Young enough that his own knees gave under him when he saw the man on the floor. He had been...
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Sample Chapter from my book Family Man - Bonnyrigg not Bonnybridge
Saddled wae Bruce fur the weekend. The result ae, Aldo, as he so often does, callin in a favour. The Mrs wisnae too thrilled tae satisfy this...
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The Golden Acorn Chapter 3.
Chapter Three. Heart Stopping. After six weeks of trying her best to cheer her husband up, Babbin was no better. No matter what Inga said or did, he...
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Amanderella and the Marduk Affair Chapter 2
Chapter Two. Packing. The Lecture Theatre was emptying fast. Chairs scraped, bags thumped shut, and the last of the students drifted out in twos and...
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No Forwarding Address - Part One
The road into La Honda stayed dark under the redwoods long after the sky went white. The reporter came up the last stretch on foot. Sheriff's cars...
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The Way We Heard. Love was All Around Us again.
It was obvious Laughing Boy was dying to ask Andy. He lit a fag first and took a few drags. Did you see her there?’ Andy pressed his lips together...
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Under 10
He’d been banned from watching TV for being very rude. They watched him sulky, angry on imagined injuries brood. “I’ll run away! that’ll teach them!...
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Amanderella and the Marduk Affair Chapter 1
Chapter One. A New Mystery. Lady Amanderella Gottsnobbler sighed as the last polite claps faded away. She had just spent an hour describing her...
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The Golden Acorn Chapter 2.
Chapter Two. The Witch. One day, Babbin was standing outside the smithy, taking a well‑earned break from the heavy work, when a woman rode up on a...
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Bron-55
Continued from Chapter 54: Bron-54 | ABCtales Lorraine Sanderson twisted round to grasp the glass of water on the bedside table, then slumped back,...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (27)
Part 26 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-26 Billy felt an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. He had outrun the...
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The Way We Heard. Love Was All Around Us Too.
Old Jock, Podge, and that baldie guy whose name you could never remember, were playing darts up the other end of the pub. You were sitting at the...
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When a dog knows too much
When a dog knows too much he will soon return to the place where all dogs are made and you must begin to pack for his departure. Pack his exuberance...
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The Golden Acorn
The Golden Acorn. Chapter One. The Blacksmith. Babbin was born big, and he carried on growing after that too. By the time he was fourteen, he was...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Crystal Aviary. Chapter 11
Chapter 11. Returning the Snuffbox. Amanderella walked into the corridor. Mist curled along the floor. The Squelch Beak strutted out behind her,...
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The Way We Heard - Rat Trap
If you’ve ever drunk Lambanóg on a rainy night in a Tondo bar, you’ll understand every word of this.
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