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Dorothy Taylor breathed in dust like it was her own, her own worn bones being ground into dirt. Instead of being just a tired old floor, and hardly dirty, she’d swept it herself. Such a pity her head was pressed up against it.

She could feel Jack’s foot in the small of her back, could smell his shoes, and something...

461 words by E Stevenson

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“For Christmas Dad I want a dragon.” said Suzie one night as she sat on his lap.

“Not a toy one, a real one that flies and breathes fire, and if I don't get one, next year I'll be bad.”

“Oh” said Dad.

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“I'm not sure that Santa has any dragons, they'd eat up his reindeer and stomp on his elves.”

“What...

325 words by A Blackshaw

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Published 10 years ago

Reflections of a Cowboy.

I only know the life of the range. The squeak of leather chaps, the singe of hide under the branding iron, the smell of gunpowder, the sting of dirt kicked up by hooves, the sunsets desperate with loneliness.

Civilization has come with a fury. Progress they call it. Trains, coaches and...

282 words by C Head

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Published 10 years ago

Forty-two. The meaning of life? No, it’s a number, leading to a room, a room that doesn’t exist anymore. The smoking room.

Before the ban, before smoking wasn’t allowed, one of our colleges had such a room, a room just for them, the people who smoked.

Empty, white, white milk of magnesia walls, oozing into sludge...

503 words by E Stevenson

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Published 10 years ago

Look. Don't blame me. I told my boss and he told his boss, and his boss told his boss.

All I said was: is that pile of sand shrinking? We were just taking a breather—it's hard work with the jackhammer, trying not to hit Edinburgh's precious tram lines. All the while you can feel the eyes of the Princes Street shoppers...

493 words by N Chidwick

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Published 10 years ago

Lucie wandered around the cabin. She wasn’t sure she was in the right room. Over on the left was the door to the bathroom and next to that, the wardrobe room. But both of the rooms looked slightly different and there was no verandah, or even a maid’s room.
Altogether the suite looked smaller. And where was Lil...

570 words by E Stevenson

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Published 10 years ago

Wait, you’re not recording this are you? People often ask me how I lost my eye and I’ll lose business on the after-dinner speaking circuit if it gets out.
I call it
Japes in the Swiss Guard, written and performed by Ludo Staunch.

I was a raw recruit when I first stumbled into the path of Captain Stilicho. I had just...

1189 words by R MacInnes

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Published 10 years ago

We’d been in the flat a year when it happened.

The night had been cold, and extremely wet, not very pleasant. I was sitting in my chair, over by the window.

My wife was out working, she usually was. It was then that I heard it, an enormous crash, a screech and a thud, followed by silence. Someone’s life, played out...

317 words by E Stevenson

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Published 10 years ago

The Tooth Fairy

Alex watched as the six year old picked up the old pair of pliers.

“Bet you won’t do it!” He taunted at his younger brother.

“Will too!” Kyle yelled, opened his mouth, reached the pliers back into his mouth, gripped the tooth, and closed the metal around it.

“You’re not gonna do it! You’re...

1158 words by J Woest

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Published 10 years ago

SNIP

The moon was bright. The hiss of cricket song rose in swells and crescendos from the savanna plains. The crush of eucalyptus breathed in through the gentle silk hanging over the window.

He lay on his bed. Not a sound to disturb him. Mother and Father were already gone. Sister also was asleep. The sandman had...

685 words by J Woest

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Published 10 years ago

Till Death Do Us Part

“We are gathered here in the presence of God to witness the exchange of vows that will bind this couple together in the covenant relationship of marriage. When this ceremony has ended, they will leave this place as husband and wife, joined together by the Lord of heaven and earth...

946 words by M Marino

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Published 10 years ago

Mori sat cross legged to one side of her bedroom door listening intently. The door was slightly ajar and downstairs the feast was in full swing, loud conversations overlapped one another, fiddlers and drummers played songs for dancing, and laughter filled the great hall and every stairway and corridor leading from it. She...

377 words by A Blackshaw

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Published 10 years ago

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