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One Winter's Day You Will Meet Your Maker
‘You, or sometimes I was called, ‘You better’. Regular as raindrops my little sister slipped free from the bottom bunk-bed, square toes and flat,...
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Little Ally’s head felt fuzzy in the morning. A musty old-wallpaper smell helped her eyes flicker open. Daddy struggled to sit up in bed, her nose...
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school photos 33
Our Jo took charge at bedtime. Little Ally could still smell the lingering presence of cigarette smoke from Mum’s cigarettes that haunted the cold...
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The Partick post-office branch smelled musty, a large cavernous room that echoed the sound of hurrying feet and voices but now it was relatively...
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Patricia jingled the ward keys on the chain before selecting the right one to let Janine out. There was a certain irony in that. She’d been the...
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