Tag: comedy
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CANADIAN ROCKIES RETIREMENT HOME
‘You don’t think the mountain range is enough to keep them out?’ ‘Nope,’ Frank spat as he knocked in the last fence post. ‘But if they manage to get over that,’ Giles pointed to the tall peaks in the distance, ‘then this fence isn’t going to stop them.’ Frank threw down the hammer and looked…
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HOME ALONE 13: HOLIDAY IN THE HACIENDA
Being abandoned by his family every Christmas as a child had set off the downward spiral. Thirty years later, he had finally hit rock bottom. Cassandra lay naked on the bed, her skin blotchy and bruised, the needle still hanging out her arm. He shelled out the notes from his wallet and left them on…
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A CHRISTMAS STORY
‘The setting for our Christmas story today is a mountainous region far away, a land of hills and fields. There lived three men there…’ A small hand shot up, ‘Was one of them Santa?’ ‘No, one of them was not Santa. As I was saying, there lived three men there who tended to their flock…
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POTTERING IN THE GARAGE
Mary was as surprised as her gawking neighbours when the string of black vans pulled up outside her house with a screech of tyres and flashing lights. Armed MI5 agents rushed across her perfectly manicured lawn and flowerbeds, surrounding the house. ‘Come out now. Hands where we can see them!’ Instinctively she raised her hands…
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ONWARD
Archie sat atop the bogie kart. The road stretched out in front of him. And below him. A long way below him. ‘Are you sure about this, Archie?’ his best friend and fellow kart-builder Bill asked. Archie saw the look of genuine concern in his classmate’s face. He pulled the racing goggles over his eyes…
Iain Kelly 