Please enjoy reading these very curious tales for very curious people.
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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
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
McDonald-Sayer Turns Away From His Dream
“If I’d wanted revolutions, I would have hired a Cuban,” he had joked, weakly.
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.
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.
The Rimmingtons
No one close by heard the single gunshot crashing from the wardroom. No one was there to soften the blow as Glyde’s badly damaged head slammed into the table.
Don’t call him Satan
You snake! You dog! You dirty snitch. My brother’s got 15 years in prison because of you…
Sports: for People Who Hate Sports
Any Winter Sport is immensely entertaining because it will show you people far more wealthy than you will ever be injuring themselves badly.
The Wallington Shocker
“You would like to know as much about the creature who pulled the triggers, tied the knots, hammered the nails and wielded the knife. I imagine that you have your own theories on the pairings of the civilians, the note, the relationship between the eight and the reason for choosing Wallington above all other villages.
The Poet’s Wife Writes
I became intensely jealous about exactly what was happening during those lunches.
‘Dapper’ Dale’s death
Dale had done this to him. Threat after threat sandwiched by false friendship, even sympathy. Dale played with him until Ted finally broke.
Mountain Pressure
Ups and downs and winter birds singing around them. The pine trees’ scent, the wind in the needles above and around them.
Lucy’s days
The noodles would slip down and fill his stomach, taking away the humiliation he felt at being in debt to his own daughter.
It Comes to Some of Us in the End
Tom ‘Bopper’ Keys was returned unto the earthly Earth. That much was certain.
Sydney by Cab
I’ve heard of thousand dollar bottles, dug from Napoleonic cellars over which a shopping mall was soon to rise.
A Patient Shark
Maybe I am an escapologist and this is a show? Seems unlikely.
Love
Their laughter isn’t loud. It is a lovely, moving event. They are gone quickly.
Janssen Stand Down!
Imagine a place full of people making laws who have no idea what it’s like to be hungry or cold? That would be stupid.
It Is What It Is
It is not a stroke of luck to be born where you were born. Everybody knows that. Think about it.
