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Narrated Tales Comp. library from Anthony Blackshaw.

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 years ago

I believe some of the most romantic love stories begin in the most unexpected of places. Because she had fallen in and out of love around fifty times (if that one time behind the club counted... and that other one in the toilets, the same night) Chantelle had all but given up on finding true love.

It was an average...

498 words by J Cambrook

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Published 7 years ago

On Sunday, August 7th, the sun didn't rise.

All the people on Alice's street rose with their alarm clocks. They woke without the glint of sunlight peering through their curtains and the panic of their neighbors as they looked outside. The stars were gone and the moon had long slipped away. They stood on their tiny...

396 words by J Sepple

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Published 7 years ago

Darren Cunningham watched the water burst into bits of white foam against the rocks at the base of the cliff. The setting sun lit them up into a stunning, blood-colored haze. Something about the sight of it made him uneasy.

He traced his index finger along the fragile spine of the manila folder in his hands. It was...

516 words by M Nelson

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Published 7 years ago

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