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Short stories, microfiction, and some longer pieces

  • Christmas in Sam’s Restaurant

    “We’ve cleaned, Chef”, she snapped back. She knew what he was feeling because she was feeling it too. Christmas week and she was already planning where to work next. My dear reader, it was Christmas week and as usual Carl, the Chef-Patron was in a tumultuously bad mood. The restaurant had been decked with all

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  • A Christmas Hope

    Christmas Eve had come at last, and the house was festooned with decorations. Granny Bacon had called it ‘gaudy’ when she came to visit. Sean was fairly sure that this meant it was completely bloody brilliant. Part 1 It was two weeks before Christmas Eve, and there was no Mum to be seen or felt

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  • McDonald-Sayer Turns Away From His Dream

    “If I’d wanted revolutions, I would have hired a Cuban,” he had joked, weakly.

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  • O’Keefe and the Maltese

    He’d lay out a solution using his own code. I’d remind myself never to wrong-side him. Never.

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  • Revenger’s Tales – John and Gordon

    Revenge makes you right and wrong simultaneously. Something tells you that what you want to do is wrong but by doing it, by completing their Revengers’ Tale, the world will be set right.

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