Category: SHORT STORIES
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#21 | Friends At War
‘Fancy running into you two.’ ‘Your grace.’ Tallulah and Rocks mock bow at the appearance of Caroline the Duchess behind them outside the airport. ‘Shut up.’ Caroline playfully swaths them, she loathes using her formal title that came with marriage to Ralph, especially not with her friends. It’s why the press call her the reluctant…
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#20- MONTE MADRE
When the car turns into the narrow road leading to the doors of Monte Madre, JJ felt the tension begin to ebb. On instinct Rocco reaches for her hand, giving it a squeeze, their first contact since boarding the private jet to Florence. Monte Madre. Arriving in this little hamlet is a thrill unlike no…
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#19 – Between Friends
‘Hey you.’ ‘Hello. How are you?’ JJ and Rocks exchange a fond hug, ‘hey stranger.’ She greets Sebastian, Rocks’ husband, ever so fondly. ‘Don’t make me feel too guilty. It’s good to see you.’ Sebastian and JJ exchange a kiss on each cheek, they’d been friends for as long as she and Rocks reconnected in…
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#18- WHAT HAPPENED TO US?
‘Hello Martin.’ Martin curses under his breath, he needs to change the locks no more unwelcomed visitors in his house, especially children and ex-wives. ‘What are you doing here Gyll? How did you get in?’ ‘I used to live here. Raised five children here.’ Gyll answers, she’d been waiting on her ex-husband to come home.…
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#17- TURN IT UP
‘You better be careful with that arm or you might wreck your average.’ Cliff has been watching Rocco go hard to bat for an hour straight. The man with the golden leftie they call him. Dapo called to let him know their friend was hitting hard balls so they know there is a problem. ‘Nah…
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#16- Little Jiji
It started out like any other morning in the Adamson household except Jorja was staying home from school because she’d come down with a cold and had to be sent home the day before. As usual the child liked to stay in the kitchens with the household staff, looking forward to the flower delivery by…
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#15- OH JORJA
‘JJ.’ ‘Get out.’ ‘JJ.’ Rocco tries to step in. ‘Get. Out.’ JJ’s eyes never left her mother’s. ‘Don’t go.’ Rocco says to Gyll. ‘I will.’ JJ makes to step back into the waiting elevator. ‘JJ come on.’ ‘Come on? Just in case you don’t know, I am mad at you that you would let her…
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#14- Three Months And A Baby
Rocco has never really seen JJ lose her composure the way she is about to now, they argue, have fights, but the last time she lost her mind during a fight was three months into their relationship… … All week JJ had been feeling queasy and waspish, the shop was busier than normal, word had…
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#13- CRASH
‘What are you doing here?’ There were a lot of things JJ expected when she walked into her home after a long day at the shop; dinner either cooked by Rocco or their chef, excited children as normal or quiet ones as they did their homework, some friends over, Rocco watching a basketball game, at…