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Magic Shampoo VI

Derek stared at Kim's body for a long time. -Well, are we going to have sex? -No. I don't want that from you. Can't we just talk? -What do you want...
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Funeral Games

The worst part about my father’s death wasn’t the death. It was the circus that formed around it — a slow-moving horror of corridors, signatures,...
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Collecting Pocket Calculators

I collect old calculating machines for a hobby, anything, like shop counter adding, specialised scientific calculators, financial ones etc. Any old...
Cherry

After Geneva

There’s a kind of comfort in failure. It softens the edges of expectation. My father welcomed me home like a prophecy fulfilled. I hadn’t just...
Cherry

Watching You Chapters Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Five Black’s denims were filthy, dyed the same liquid brown as the canal. They no longer felt soggy, but his legs stung as though he’d...
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The Patrolman - 32

Mr. Slate hung up the payphone and headed back to his apartment building.

Travelling to Dystopia (Time Tunnel Tale # 4)

It is funny when you think of it in terms of 2023, but back in 1984, workers still went for a drink at lunchtime, in fact it was really the ‘norm’ of...
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1967

1967 Look at this! A photograph taken at my parents wedding reception. A snapshot from olden times. My dad grimacing, all Vinolia brilliantine,...

Magic Shampoo 5

I'm at work. I haven't slept at all. I feel horrible. This Magic Shampoo is a horrible thing! It turns women into skeletons and then dust. From dust...

I Need To Protect My Heart!

Decades ago, I started work. Years later we all found out, that money is given as a reward for certain years worked. Then after many years it was...