Steve Button
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I have 60 stories published in
2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 115316 times
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Steve Button
My stories
A Theory Of Music
It's said the blue whale has more perfect pitch than you or I can ever hope for, four octaves below middle C they croon in the shivering chambers of the deep blue sea
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Early Learning
In summer we helped mix swill for penned and snouting pigs the foul stink of fermenting dregs mashed in a zinc bathtub with a shovel, larger than life for two small boys.
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Artifice
That day we wandered onto a film set - remember? Under the arch and through the bright sheen of the afternoon flickering off the river, in a moment smothered
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The Sinister Art Of Listening In On Other People's Conversations
These mothers measuring their children, ticking off achievements and hindrances, the hard currency of this motherhood business, bartering individual brilliance.
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On A Sunday Walk
An eruption of geese came yelling off the pond as if a bomb had dropped. Too soon for migration, more like a gang-fight or playground ruck, low and startled, almost in touching range,
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