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Magic Shampoo VI
Derek stared at Kim's body for a long time. -Well, are we going to have sex? -No. I don't want that from you. Can't we just talk? -What do you want...
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Funeral Games
The worst part about my father’s death wasn’t the death. It was the circus that formed around it — a slow-moving horror of corridors, signatures,...
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Collecting Pocket Calculators
I collect old calculating machines for a hobby, anything, like shop counter adding, specialised scientific calculators, financial ones etc. Any old...
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After Geneva
There’s a kind of comfort in failure. It softens the edges of expectation. My father welcomed me home like a prophecy fulfilled. I hadn’t just...
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Watching You Chapters Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Five Black’s denims were filthy, dyed the same liquid brown as the canal. They no longer felt soggy, but his legs stung as though he’d...
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What do grown-ups mean by a ‘short’ walk?
Kick a ball and climb a tree – [‘If Daddy says it’ll take about twenty, that means it’s probably twice that far – say forty mins. to reach our car.’] …
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- 384 reads
The Patrolman - 32
Mr. Slate hung up the payphone and headed back to his apartment building.
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Travelling to Dystopia (Time Tunnel Tale # 4)
It is funny when you think of it in terms of 2023, but back in 1984, workers still went for a drink at lunchtime, in fact it was really the ‘norm’ of...
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- 50 reads
1967
1967 Look at this! A photograph taken at my parents wedding reception. A snapshot from olden times. My dad grimacing, all Vinolia brilliantine,...
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Magic Shampoo 5
I'm at work. I haven't slept at all. I feel horrible. This Magic Shampoo is a horrible thing! It turns women into skeletons and then dust. From dust...
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- 69 reads
I Need To Protect My Heart!
Decades ago, I started work. Years later we all found out, that money is given as a reward for certain years worked. Then after many years it was...
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- 151 reads
harmers
‘First the good news,’ Dr Malik offered a soft smile. ‘You’ve put on almost a pound.’ She tugged her sleeve over her wrist. But not quickly enough...
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Courtship and the next generation
In years gone by a lad would court the girl whose love and hand he sought in marriage: she had time to think– had she a liking to be caught by this...
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- 182 reads
Chocolate Box Murder
The psychological games played by food manufacturers and retailers are becoming legendary. Extracting maximum profit within the law appears paramount...
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A Jubilee couple
A Jubilee couple To you, our accolades for a voyage of five decades With exemplary conjugal harmony thwarting many adversities, in the journey...
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- 93 reads
bmw
bmw the sun casts its shape across your lounge dusty china and faded photographs a radiator key you no longer understand your arrival grander now...
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- 261 reads
After Lausanne
Messages continued to trickle back and forth — a song here, a film there, a shared memory plucked from the 90s like an old dry flower still faintly...
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The Obituary Reader
I looked to see how you died. We once were similar. Knew people, moved in circles. Then you died and became very different. And I, no longer wishing...
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England.
It is always lovely to see in sports around the world, supporting their country with their flag. I watched the tennis, over the weekend and to show...
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Magic Shampoo IV
-That was incredible. Vanessa was dancing like a ballerina. She spun around for a long time, looking like a topsy turvy top. -Dance with me, dance...
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- 69 reads