Tag: friends
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NO TROUBLE AT ALL
Alongside temperature checks every time I enter the building, my work are introducing rapid flow Covid-19 testing next week for all staff that have to be in the building. Everyone will also get a proximity alarm that will go off if someone is closer than 2 metres away. The kids are at home and we’ve […]
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ANNIVERSARY
15th of May every year, Frank and Bill met at the bench. They reminisced about old times. About meeting their sweethearts that day on the rollercoaster at Coney Island. About the lives they’d had together. The good times. The sad times. About growing old and being alone. ‘Ready?’ ‘Of course!’ Then they’d ride the rollercoaster […]
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VEILED
The veil had been lifted. She had seen the demonstrations, the protests. They had spread from America, all the way across the ocean to her doorstep. At first she didn’t understand. This wasn’t a problem here. The police didn’t do things like that here. People were treated equally here. Her black friends never spoke about […]
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TO THE VICTOR
To the victor goes the spoils, that’s what they say. There is cheering, waving flags, smiling faces. But it doesn’t feel like winning. Surrounding them is destruction and death. Buildings and homes reduced to rubble. They said the last one would be the war to end all wars. Maybe this one will be. They are […]
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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 […]
Iain Kelly 