The 250 series
By Yume1254
Hoping to get back on the regular #amwriting band wagon with my random collection of short musings.
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The fourth kiss
The first time you kissed him it was by drunken accident, outside the pub, even though Freud believed that there are no such things as accidents. You...
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Ancient battlegrounds
Love can be troublesome, even on holiday...
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At the office
I take another look at her, a real good look. Her mouth is an overexposed set of teeth and bloodied gums.
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Audition
The bass guitarist leans against the edge of a table holding her guitar aloft, ready. She nods, selects a note and starts to play. The lead guitarist...
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Because it's Christmas
At the bar, his eyes are searchlights. In these situations, I invoke the affirmations. It’s OK to be assertive, girl. Jesus, you’re beautiful, a...
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Big Girl
To read more of this story, buy My Baby Shot Me Down, a Blinding Books anthology containing work of new women writers: http://blindingbooks.com/?page_id=350
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Coffee Break
Some days, he grabs a skinny cappuccino from the onsite café at about a quarter to twelve. Its good timing, when the morning starts talking to the...
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Crossing my mind
New blood needs help with his work. I bend over beside him, experiencing guilt and lust on a loop...
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Ending
I tiptoe past him, back to the J in bed. He’s hugging himself. Normally, I would put an arm around him.
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Foreplay
Ever too tired for lovin'?
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How not to undress
A friend cheers up a good workmate after a failed night of lovin' with her fella...
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Is he listening?
Does watching Frasier help?
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Kindling
He watches the fire. I watch him. Just in case he sets alight, too. I think I know how to put him out.
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Limbo
I know he can hear me. I want him to come out here. I think he can hear me. I don’t want him to come out here.
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Long-distance
She warned us that keeping a body in a morgue in Jamaica was very expensive.
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Lost and Found
Sometimes, it's nice to get lost...
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Mother Care
You can't live with your mothers, and you can't live without them.
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Over time
She likes to work really late sometimes. When she does, she feels like that lone female scientist in a lab poring over her findings again with a...
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Playing
To read more of this story, buy My Baby Shot Me Down, a Blinding Books anthology containing work of new women writers: http://blindingbooks.com/?page_id=350
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Rush hour thoughts
The train slows and stops. As it does, it dawns on me that I should be ruling the world, right this minute.
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Saturday afternoons
A typical Saturday afternoon collecting another prescription.
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Some Children are our Future
Always enter your local Tesco Metro with a game plan. Try not to get distracted by the copious BOGOF offers. Most Metros are small and crowded, with...
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Territory
I invite her to join us, because I’m not interested in playing those games. She declines.
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The trouble with a social conscience
At the bar, the busy, smiling barman says he’ll be with me in thirty seconds. Behind us, premiership football patrons stare at the TV on mute. Until...
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Time travel
It’s J. In the future. By thirty or forty years.
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Why aren’t you on Facebook?
I know why I'm not on Facebook...do you?
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Networking
The speaker receives a tepid round of applause because we're all desperate for a piss. An invisible technician changes the slide. Lunch and your...
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