Category: SHORT STORIES
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Advent Stories #21- Mother, Father, Daughters
Bella tries Kaiser’s phone again and it goes to voicemail. She’d spent the morning at the office shutting it down, the night before she took her team out to one last dinner. She will miss them, they worked incredibly hard for her over the years and gave it their all, won awards and are all…
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Advent Stories #20- Fair Enough
Kaiser arrives at the Rhodes residence, nervous but he knows this is something he has to do. Something should have done, but life has a way of not going according to a set plan; meet a girl, date a while, fall in love, marry for life. He looked at the house, Bella did not tell…
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Advent Stories #19- Finding Our Way Back
Sloane cannot concentrate at work, since the argument with her mother things have been off. She and Fitz are not okay, they have not been together in over two months and this thing with Bella is consuming all of them. The parents are still on the outs with the children, mother more like, and their…
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Advent Stories #18- Meet The Family
It’s been almost a week and the press have not let up. They covered the news of the London Edition shutting down and it was trending on social media. Her parents are still up in arms about her marriage to Kaiser, her mother most especially; she’d heard from Beatrix that she called Sloane and there…
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Advent Stories #17- Mothers And Daughters
‘So you put your sister up to this?’ Sloane has just returned from seeing her sisters off to the airport for their flight home when her mother rang. She was half expecting this. Serena and Beatrix are up in the air, Bella must’ve just dropped the bomb and so she is the next best person…
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Advent Stories #16- Time To Face The Music
Bella revises her editor’s letter to go out to their readers on all platforms come Monday morning. She also scheduled a staff meeting and a meeting with her accountant. She reaches for her phone and dials the number to The Village. News in Threes. It is answered in two rings by a maid. ‘Rhodes residence.’…
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Advent Stories #15- The Morning After
Sloane lies awake in bed, Fitz is already left for work. She looks over at his side of the bed, there is a note for her on the pillow. Please eat breakfast, don’t go into the office, your assistant has cleared your schedule. Talk to your sisters, please don’t call the police. I love you…
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Advent Stories #14- Back To Reality
Bella and Kaiser were met at the airport by his brothers, after one week on the run, as Sloane put it, they left their haven in the provincial town of Roussillon and stepped out into the real world waiting on them. Kaiser’s mother was still mad at him, but she’s managed to be kind to…
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Advent Stories #13- Serendipity
Fitz remembers the first time he met Sloane. It was at a Jay-Z concert at the Barclay Arena, one he decided to attend at the very last minute, when his friends wouldn’t take no for an answer. She is best friends with his cousin, April and he’d heard about her from a bunch of people…