Island Hideaway
Island Hideaway
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Island Hideaway 1 - Eye Opener
She opened her right eye a fraction. Not enough to see through, more as if testing whether she was alive or dead. If I hadn't been watching closely I...
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Island Hideaway 2 - The Island
My uncle won the island in a card game. It was the sort of island rich aristocrats would have at the bottom of their property portfolio and think...
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Island Hideaway 3 - An unexpected Visitor
The Boatman had been for the day, so I was alone, with no prospect of seeing another mortal soul until the Boatman returned the next day. If the...
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Island Hideaway 4 - Scrambled Egg
"You put me off my scrambled egg." Those was the first words Mo ever said to me. I was a DJ on the University radio station, Shreek 963. We had...
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Island Hideaway 5 - Coma Hide and Seek
"Is she dead?" "Of course she's not dead. Why would I bring you a dead body? She's in a coma."
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Island Hideaway - Chapter 6 Eddie
"This is crap," were the first words Eddie ever said to me. This was our second day at University, at the Clyne welcome disco (Clyne was our halls of...
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Island Hideaway 7 - Isolated Island, Population One
My uncle died just as I finished university. When I inherited the island I was still looking for work and hadn't firmed up any plans for a career,...
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Island Hideaway 8 - The Good Thing About Mo
The good thing about Mo was that she had a boyfriend, so we could just hang out together, we could go to the cinema, for a meal, spend a long day and...
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Island Hideaway 10 - Shipwrecks
I sat by the bed and watched Mo’s prostrate body. She was breathing, the machinery told me, but not discernibly, there was no sound, no movement,...
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Island Hideaway 11 - The Finnish Scallop Industry
I had google to help me. I was a google addict anyway, it was my main source of information on all the things I wrote about, whether I was knocking...
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Island Hideaway 12 - A sponge but No Inflatable Giraffe
When she'd been with me four days I finally worked up the courage to strip Mo naked. She was more than ready, her pyjamas were beginning to pong,...
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Island Hideaway 14 - the return of purple shirted hand-jive goth girl
Her phone number wasn't totally illegible, there were only a couple of digits completely missing, the rest were readable or guessable. I spent the...
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Island Hideaway 15 - The Last Hand-Jive
We met at the Woodman pub, at the bottom of the road from Clyne Halls, a couple of nights later as planned and she ended up staying over at mine as...
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Island HIdeaway 16 - The Twitcher
It took me a while to truly believe that I had dodos living on my island, but once I had confirmed it was true I dedicated my time to finding out...
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Island Hideaway 17 - Basil Rathbone's Tortoise
"Basil Rathbone named his tortoise after my grandmother", Mo said to me once. "Did he?" I said. "I have my grandmother's word for it."...
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Island Hideaway 18 - Dog Blogging
I tried to spend as much time as I could with Mo, reading to her, eating in front of her, talking to her, anything to stimulate her mind, if there...
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Island Hideaway 19 - The Leaving Gift
I'd not seen Mo since she started her job. I'd barely had contact with her from that day until Eddie had turned up at in a private boat with her...
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Island Hideaway 20 - No Man is An Island (Except me)
Nobody came to visit me after I'd moved to the island. For one thing it was hard to find. The island isn't on any maps. One of the previous...
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Island Hideaway 22 - Eye Opener
She opened her right eye a fraction. Not enough to see through, more as if testing whether she was alive or dead. If I hadn't been watching closely I...
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Island Hideaway 21 - new boat same Eddie
Eddie returned one night about six weeks later. I rarely went down to the beach in the evenings any more, so I had no idea he was visiting until I...
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Island Hideaway 23 - Visiting Time
"I brought you a visitor", I said. Monty waddled into the room on cue. Monty was one of the dodos, the tamest of the bunch, he would often come into...
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Island Hideaway 24 - No Further Signs of Life
Mo was alive I was certain of it. I had seen her eyelids open. But it had been four days and there was nothing else. I googled medical sites...
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Island Hideaway 25 - The First Signs of Life
Breathing. I could hear Mo breathing. True, she obviously had been breathing all this time, she was alive, but only the bare minimum,...
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Island Hideaway 26 - Ikea Roast
During the three days that followed the breathing incident I left her room as little as possible. I moved my desk and computer into the room so that...
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Island Hideaway 27 - The Frank and Walters
"Can I borrow your orange ski jacket?" I said to Kaz. Kaz was the record librarian, a business studies student, all Dorset twang and cardigans, she...
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Island Hideaway 28 - Awakening
You're alive," I said. " What gave it away?"
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Island Hideaway 29 - Here Be Dodos
I was in Mo's room, writing an article and chatting with her. Suddenly there was an enormous roar which shook and reverberated across the island,...
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Island Hideaway 30 - Mystery Shopping
Waking from a coma isn't quite as easy as Jesus raising people from the dead in the bible, where the dead are immediately up and running around,...
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Island Hideaway 31 - Clitoral stimulation and other puff
"What are you writing?" "An article on clitoral stimulation for a sex therapy magazine." "No, seriously, what are you writing?" "An...
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Island Hideaway 32 - Walkies
I've been shopping I said "Wow, it must be Christmas. My very own zimmer frame. How did you know, I usually get stuff I don't want, like...
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Island Hideaway 33 - Dodo love
The dodos loved Mo and everywhere she went she was surrounded by them. She didn't even need to bribe them with nuts. It was helpful for me, as I...
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Island Hideaway 34 - dodo speak for folliage
In spite of the difficulties of the first attempt, Mo wasn't detered and slowly got further and further with each walk, it also became easier to move...
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Island Hideaway 35 - Occupy to Win
The Magic Roundabout Appreciation Society always had their own table at the Student Union meetings, with six or seven of them, usually acting as a...
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Island Hideaway 36 - A walk along the sea front
After a week of walking around the house, Mo had found enough strength to abandon her walker. "I think I'm fit enough to go outside now," she...
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Island Hideaway 37 - The Stranger
"Who's there?" I said again. The figure was clearly visible in my torchlight, dressed in black and wearing a black balaclava. I clutched at a rock...
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Island Hideaway 38 - The biggest war there ever was
Eddie returned a few nights later, unannounced as always. We were highly boat aware by this point and Mo had asked all dodos to look out for boats...
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Island Hideaway 39 - Endings and beginnings
Mo left Eric the day he finished his final exam. "I didn't want to be the cause of his screwing up God," she explained. "You don't seem too...
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Island Hideaway 40 - You can see the sea
"I can't believe you own this island, it's beautiful. And you own the dodos. Every dodo in the world belongs to you." "No, I just own the island...
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Island Hideaway 41 - Heraclitus said
Through the same river ever different water flows, Heraclitus once wrote. He could have written that through the same university ever different...
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Island Hideaway 42 - Like a halibut in a polluted ocean
"I owe you an explanation," Mo said. "My cutting ties the way I did." "I understand. New life, new people." "Is that what you thought?" "...
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Island Hideaway 43 - The first dodo lecture
Before she left, Mo translated what she had learnt about the dodos. She tried to teach me to speak dodo, but I struggled with the arm positions but...
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Island Hideaway 44 - The second dodo lecture
Before she left, Mo taught me a lot about the language of the dodos. I wasn't even aware that the dodos had regional accents - the dodos on the south...
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Island Hideaway 45 - Beach walk
We walked on the beach late at night when we wanted to talk, or didn't want to talk. It was our confessional, our playground, our private space, our...
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Island Hideaway 46 - The elephant is fine in itself
"The elephant is fine in itself," she said.
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Island Hideaway 47 - Just one last thing before I go
The night before Mo left she came into my room during the night. I was asleep at this point but woke at the noise, woke at the noise of her removing...
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Island Hideaway 48 - Two lonely modes connecting, but not connecting
After the elephant we never spoke again about going out. We just accepted it. Well, I just accepted it. With the relationship issue firmly...
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Island Hideaway 49 - Go, Go, Go
I woke up to a text message six days letter, from a number I didn't recognise. "All ready. Will be there around midnight. Be ready to go. Eddie...
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Island Hideaway 50 - Megabastard Inc
We didn't spend much of our time together, of course. We were doing different degrees with different timetables, I had the radio, writers group,...
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Island Hideaway 51 - Everything changes
A shot rang out. The gunman fell to the ground. From nowhere the Boatman emerged, brandishing a rifle. "Sorry to leave it so late," he said. "I...
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Island HIdeaway 53 (of 53) - Final words
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