Tag: fate
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HE NEVER LEFT
Heading downtown, with a one way ticket out of here. Nothing left for me in this one-horse town. It’s time to go and find my fortune elsewhere. This is my destiny. ‘Yo, Mikey!’ Who’s that at the window? Julie? Man, she is hot, even in tracksuit bottoms and wet hair. ‘Hey, Julie.’ ‘Where you headin’?’…
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SHATTERED DREAMS
He ducked under the blade, but the man crashed into him and they toppled over the barrier and then they were falling towards the lights below. *** ‘Are you breaking up with me?’ She could feel the tears forming. ‘You’ve got the wrong idea.’ Sitting under the magnificent glass ceiling in the opulent ballroom, now…
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IT CAME FROM AFAR
The mass rolled towards them from afar. She came from the snow-peaked mountains, tumbling over the hills, obscuring the clear blue sky. ‘How long?’ ‘A day, at most.’ ‘We should go.’ ‘She will find us. There is no point in running.’ The darkness would one day cover the whole world. The light would be blocked…
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FATEFUL DECISION
He had reached a crossroads. It was now or never. Should he ask her or not? They had been getting on well. He wasn’t great at reading these sort of situations but there was definite chemistry between them. While at work they sought each other out to chat, there was laughter, there was smiling. Come…
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A FINAL FAREWELL
Sweep, sweep. I watch the worker brush the final bits of debris into the pile of rubble. The abandoned café had been the perfect spot. That’s why I’d used it. The area was a wasteland of crumbling warehouses, forsaken ghettos and no witnesses. Then the Port Authority announced their plans for waterfront renewal. Millions of…
Iain Kelly 