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Writers' Island : Chapter 3 : Nick Makes Himself At Home

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24/1/20 Victor was one of the organisers. He met Nick and the fellow writers who had come off the boat earlier that afternoon when they arrived at...
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Looking Backwards

First, my thanks to Edward Bellamy, for borrowing the title of his interesting book, written long ago. The concept of “looking backward” has always...
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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...
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Story of the week

Flashback

Memories flood in from meeting old friends at a funeral
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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...
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Keep On (3)

He said it a third time, word for word, and let go of the bar. The hiss came back. He had begun to hear things in it. A rise and fall like breathing...
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Keep On (2)

The lighter went out on its own when the fuel in the neck ran low, and he let it. He lay in the dark of the corner with the bulb behind him and...
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Keep On (1)

The water came out of the kitchen tap cold and stayed cold. Martin Shoup let it run while he counted to sixty, the way he always did, then shut it...

Preparing the ground.

My part of the world is bathed in a welter of autumn sunshine this morning. The earth is still damp from the early dew that will shortly evaporate; a...
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