Tag: SHORT STORIES
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Advent Story #6 | Into the Woods
There is a gentle knock on Ife’s door, something she is not expecting, because she is not expecting anyone. Besides, no one knows her here, although she has made friends with Valentina the ice cream shop owner, she does not know where she lives. She answers anyway. ‘Bonasera.’ ‘Bonasera.’ It is not the ice-cream shop…
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Advent Story #3 | The Kids Are Not Okay
News breaking this morning is of the Labour MP and future leader of the party as the polls stand, Tristan Walden the third’s affair with one of his wife’s best friend Rellie Anderson. Details are still unfolding about the affair, but it is supported by video evidence of the two of them kissing in a…
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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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#24 | ALWAYS & FOREVER…
‘What are you two doing here?’ Rocks’ grandmother’s home is bride central; the three friends secured a wedding dress by Dior and Nonna’s seamstress drove in from Florence to help with minor alterations. A team of hotel staff are setting up the village church and another work the ball room. The three friends made their…