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Tom Emery
Now retired from a career in teaching, I live in Scarborough, where I spend my days reading, writing, travelling and playing the piano, but not necesserily in that order.
My stories
Afterwards
We wind the clocks of our lives without ever once knowing the time, ignoring our ever slowing pulse with little regard for what is to come. But what...
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Meredith's Darkness
Although Winter was loosening its grip, it still had a few icy fingers wrapped around this March afternoon. Meredith felt the all too familiar shiver...
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Crying Against The Dying Of The Light
This was written after reading evidence statements taken from working children by the Children's Employment Commissioners at the Loanhead Colliery,...
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No Fixed Abode
'And where do you live?' enquired Badger, scratching his belly vigorously with a hind leg. 'My mum says that if ever I'm asked that question, my...
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A Grimm Tale
There once was a rich man who had two sons, one of whom was extremely handsome, but feckless and lazy, and the other plain of countenance, but clever...
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