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Category: SUMMER SHORT STORIES
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#14 | Second Chances
Logan slammed the door to his mother’s home, the family home where he grew up, livid. He’s just come from his meeting with Francesca, and he headed straight from there to his mother. ‘What is the noise for?’ Leila comes barrelling down the grand steps leading into the hallways because the entire house shook at…
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#13 | HEARTBREAK HOTEL
It is a warm summer’s day, warmer than ever, one of those rare warm days in the summer that sees everyone roaming the streets nearly naked, high forties in London but Franny never felt so cold. The sun worshippers, the revellers, the delightful squeals of children… it all feel so foreign to her, it felt…
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#12 | Ours
Franny swam her way up to the surface of the water, where the yacht bobbed gently. She hops back onto the vessel where Logan is relaxed on one of the beds. Heaven. This is heaven. Clear blue waters, so clear she could see to the bottom of it, the sun in the blue skies and…
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#11 | MOTHERS & THEIR DAUGHTERS
‘Do you know where your son is?’ Paula shows herself into the parlour and takes a seat on the armchair without being invited to. Leila was not in the mood for her mother’s bullshit, she never is, but now is not the time. ‘Mother.’ ‘I asked you a question.’ ‘Has it escaped your mind that…
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#10 | Game, Set, Matcha
‘Hello.’ ‘Mrs Sterling…’ Franny freezes, tightening her grip of the bottle of wine in her hand; if she drops it, it’ll be deducted from her pay and wouldn’t that be ironic. This was the same wine she’d sold to Logan on his mother’s birthday. ‘Francesca, is it?’ Franny mentally takes a deep breath to steady…
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#9 | A Diamond Ring
Logan wanted to do this with his siblings, he had no idea why he has kept them in the dark about Francesca, but he knows how things would be once they get to meet her. He wants to have her to himself for a little while yet. Not that they wouldn’t love her, they will,…
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#8- Between Friends
Franny tapped her leg impatiently waiting for her best friend to meet her at the wine bar, their favourite hole in the wall aptly names the wine bar at the hole in the wall no points for originality but what they lack in finesse they make up for by the barrel load in fine wine;…
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#7 | Three Little Words…
‘Where will we go?’ ‘Anywhere you want to.’ ‘Florence.’ Franny sat up in bed. Logan has stayed over every night, for about a month. She knew what he was doing and loved him even more for it; he wanted to let her know he didn’t mind coming here, to her council flat where the bath…
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#6 | Little Miss Working Class
It was always going to happen; Franny just didn’t think it would happen quite so soon… ‘Hello son.’ ‘Mum. Wha…a. what are you doing here?’ ‘Grabbing a coffee.’ Leila had that sunny demeanour, one that disguises the way she feels to the outside world, but her children know so well. She got word of Logan’s…