Makis
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I have 26 stories published in
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My stories have been read 12608 times
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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
The Pianola
It sat in pride of place in gran's front parlour, a place to sneak into while the grown-ups did their grown-up things in other parts of the house. A...
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- 522 reads
The Marriage Chest
She acquired a chest of golden hue with drawers of graded size where things would be stored for a longed for life with the perfect man whose eyes...
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- 202 reads
In The Parish of Saint Pancras of Rome
It was born of delay in 1862, when frustration turned to affray Trains were halted on congested line, with delays so horrendous That even the benign...
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- 352 reads
It's Grim Up North
Whilst strolling gently down twilight road I encountered a man worsted by sombre load His knees were bent and shoulders cowed And his manner ungainly...
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The Still Waiting
A story with a beginning, a middle and an end The third class carriage door slammed behind him as he dropped his suitcase onto the platform and took...
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