Tag: Crisis
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Hallbury Summer – Episode Twenty-five Purification
The story so far: Shaken badly by his discovery of his brother Michael, bloodied and in possession of a knife, then further upset by having to watch as Michael is taken into care, Joe Palliser arrives upon his erstwhile friend Tom’s doorstep, seeking help. The door is opened, however, not by Tom but by his…
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Seven. A Gathering Storm
The rain was gaining in strength as Karen Eversley drove away from the carpark where she had reunited Patrick with his car. He would never know how much she had ached to issue the invitation that would mean, for her, there was no turning back. It would have been so easy to take Patrick…
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View from the Armchair
Television is a tranquilizer. All winter it is our solace and our comfort, helping us to pass those long, cold nights in peace. Television is, to the twenty-first century, what gin was to the nineteenth. Of course, we don’t like to admit this, because we don’t like to accept we are addicted to television. Just…
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