Tag: family
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THE FISHERMAN
He took the wriggling bait and skewered it onto the hook. With a practiced sweep of the arm and flick of the wrist, he threw his line out into the river and then took up his usual seat perched on the end of the pier. When he had first started fishing from this pier there…
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CHANDELIER
‘Ta-da!’ announced Agnes, throwing her arms open wide, ‘what do you think?’ Archie stared at the array of lights hanging vertically from the ceiling, above the grand staircase. ‘What the…?’ he stared open-mouthed. ‘Isn’t it marvellous?’ gushed Agnes, oblivious to Archie’s response. ‘It’s…it’s…very big.’ ‘Over a thousand individual lights.’ ‘Well, if it’s what you want.’…
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ALL SEWN UP
Granny Jess passed away peacefully in her home, surrounded by her family. Sandra, her eldest, had the task of cleaning out the house where Granny had lived on her own for forty years. She took me along. ‘What’s this, Mum?’ I asked. Sandra smiled. ‘That’s your Granny’s old sewing machine.’ ‘Should we keep it?’ My Mum…
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A WASP’S NEST
The boy watched his father standing by the sea on the pebble beach. The sun shone in the clear sky, the water shimmered in the breeze. He prodded at the stones with his toe. Beneath them he saw a small, brown object. He picked it up. Pieces flaked away when he picked at the structure. As…
Iain Kelly 