Picks of the Month
August
Round The Corner (Part One)
A sort of fairy story, for sort of grown ups. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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- 304 reads
July
Life Underwater
In my life underwater, everything has learnt the trick of heaviness, slow as Sunday afternoon. Something ponderous with yellow eyes, all bones and...
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- 649 reads
June
Operation March Hare
The Department is located in Whitehall, approximately six floors below ground level, in a sprawling maze of corridors known as the Rabbit Warren. The...
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- 672 reads
May
And He Called It The Devil (Part 1)
The twins weren't bullies. Nothing like that. They just liked to have a laugh. You had to have a laugh, if you wanted to get through on the farm. It...
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- 667 reads
April
Something Hard Inside Him (Part 1)
Short story in 2 parts.
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- 620 reads
March
Sunrise
Over 300 British and Commonwealth soldiers were executed on The Western Front during the First World War, most for 'cowardice' or 'desertion in the face of the enemy'. Yet in spite of what we have long known about PTSD, and the fact that some of the victims were too young to have been serving in the army, successive governments refused to issue a blanket pardon for them until 2006. Their convictions, however, have never been quashed, which means their 'offences' remain.
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- 1225 reads
The day after yesterday
...on millpond water, I gripped this groaning mast...
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- 857 reads
February
The Autumn of Her Years
She was suddenly overcome by a desperate urge to be on her own, away from the formality, the fuss and above all, the sympathy. She leaned forward and...
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- 658 reads