Picks of the Month
August
Brooklyn Heart
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The sunlight glare on the mirror washed out James Eliot's nineteen-year-old face making his eyes pale and translucent. On the wall there was a shadow...
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Round The Corner (Part One)
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A sort of fairy story, for sort of grown ups. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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June
Operation March Hare
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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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Mirror World
Personal...
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May
And He Called It The Devil (Part 1)
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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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April
Something Hard Inside Him (Part 1)
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Short story in 2 parts.
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March
Sunrise
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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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The day after yesterday
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...on millpond water, I gripped this groaning mast...
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February
The Autumn of Her Years
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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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