Tag: life
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LIFELONG FRIENDS
Bill took Agnes’ arm and steered her to the pavement. ‘One too many prosecco?’ ‘Come on, follow the white lines home,’ Archie called back to them. ‘Remember that time you followed the wrong white line…’ ‘…all the way off the end of the boardwalk.’ Bill and Archie finished off Agnes’ story. Archie took Agnes’ arm.…
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DEATH DUMBS DOWN
‘I tried Tiddlywinks, Ludo, even Snap. In the end I settled on this.’ Death gestured to the game scrawled out on the paper in front of them. Reginald felt a pang of sympathy for the depressed figure shrouded in his black robe. ‘Really? Tic-Tac-Toe was the only one we could cope with?’ ‘It’s called Noughts…
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THE HAND OF GOD
Why am I getting so upset? I don’t care about a little Argentinian who was good at kicking a ball about some grass. Why should I care that the signed shirt has to go? But here I am, tearing up at a blank space on the wall. The paint on the wall has faded to…
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ONE WISH
The tree had become a massive shrine of wishes, colourful material decorated every branch, weighing them down and causing them to bow towards the ground. It had been a place of offered prayers and wishes before, but since the boys had become trapped in the cave, the wishing tree had become a focal point for…
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OLD JANE
595, that’s what Jane had told me right enough. It didn’t figure, her being how I remembered her from school an’ all, and the house I was looking at now. Back then she had lived in this real palatial house, her father was some hot-shot lawyer type. How had she ended up in this dump?…
Iain Kelly 