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BIRTHDAY PARTY
Darlene, with a pink bow in her hair, was spun round three times before she stumbled towards the donkey picture. While everyone was distracted, Marcus and Tommy dipped their fingers into the cake icing and savoured the sweet sugar rush. Penny stood by the railings in a huff after she had lost out on Pass…
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INTERVENTION
I was never a strong swimmer, unlike him, and he was stronger. That’s why drowning him never appealed. Plus, I’d get my hair wet and my make-up would run. But he did love the water, always at the pool, showing off his toned body and admiring the girls. So it seems only right that I…
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ROOTS
Ma roots is in Barbados, so ma Mama tells me all d’time. ‘Yo was born there, Ah was born there, yo grandaddy was born there. Dat’s where yo is from.’ Funny ting is, Ah feel no connection to dat far off place at all. We left there when Ah wasn’t even one year old, part…
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TAKE ONLY WHAT YOU NEED
They set off at first light. No sign of the enemy. Peters took the front of the stretcher, Henderson the rear. Felix lay unconscious, each step across the uneven, barren landscape making his head roll from side to side. Henderson reckoned it was a hundred miles back to the demilitarised zone – at their laboured…
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COLOURBLIND
I can only see one colour. Of all the colours I would have chosen to see the world in, this wouldn’t be it. It’s not red: filled with passion, love, lust or danger. It’s not yellow: warm, welcoming, bursting with life. It’s not blue: cool, calm, serene. No, it’s grey. Dull, drab, neutral, washed-out grey.…
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Iain Kelly 