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To Forgive Myself

I guess I should be honest with myself, right? The pain I caused by having hope in a life that rejected me with all the innocence I presented to it...

“We’re pushed all over the place, but it won’t be like that forever.”

I came across a writer who said she pitied her work because it could only ever come from her own lens. And I thought, well, that’s why we read. So,...
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Cherry

The Doll's House Chapter 6.

Chapter Six . Siddly. Siddly was quiet. The houses were close together, their roofs sloping low as if trying not to be noticed. The streets were...

The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July Part 2

All the buses had gone, as had the ambulance. Mr. Peach was bent over a car talking to someone inside. As I ran up, the door opened and Mr Plunkett...

The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July

Chapter Seven. School Sports. At the beginning of July, the Headmaster of my Junior School stood on the stage. Mr. Plunkett took Assembly every...

Gremlins

How the RAF invented a legend...

Chapter 20 - Peace

I’m floating. The void. Endless void. No memories this time. Nothing to trouble the void. No voices either. For the first time in what feels like...
Cherry

Keep On (6)

The man looked at his watch again and then at the room. He took it in the way he had taken in the little room downstairs. The calendar with the...
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Keep On (5)

The first thing he did in the dark was find the switch. He knew where it was. End of the bench, front of the gray box. He leaned for it the way he...
Gold cherry

Flashback

Memories flood in from meeting old friends at a funeral
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Old Walls - Part 5

‘It’s funny how the brain works isn’t it, Roz. Memories locked away, sequestered, I don’t mean important memories, just mundane things, details, you...
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The Doll's House Chapter 5,

Chapter Five. Bilton, Darrowmere, and Hestlewick. Bilton was a small town, not far from the edge of the Dark Forest. Rows of neat cottages lined the...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 6 June.

Chapter Six. Fits. While the rest of the gang had to make do with second-hand or home built bikes, Simon had a brand new, drop-handle bar racing bike...
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Two Faces of Justice

I walk the crooked streets of a world filled with beings that have devoured more of my kind than the beasts of the fields. For such cruelty, are...
Cherry

The Bungalow-21

Continued from Chapter 20: The Bungalow-20 | ABCtales Chapter 21 It was no golden evening Clouds ramped up against the ridge of the hill. Crows...

the forgotten

history is etched with names and battles the deeds of the great ever to be remembered but what of the folks the people left behind in time their...
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Our Metronome

He walks, our metronome, like a well-made poem past our kitchen window each day, 12.20 one way, 3.15 back again, surprisingly light on his feet and...
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Keep On (4)

For a while he only held the microphone. Under the hiss, on the other end, he could hear the room the man was in. A chair took weight and gave it...
Cherry

Frankenplot - The Gentleman's Wardrobe Part 2

As their son’s wedding approached, two things happened. Ian and Sylvia began struggling to sleep well. They considered the reasons why; latent...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 5. May Part 2.

For the next ten days we saw nothing of Mrs. Blaggard. I overheard Mum and Stew’s mother talking about how bad tempered the old woman was becoming. "...
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