Tag: Pain
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The Mind in Flight
It is three o’clock in the morning. I sit at my desk, the white screen of my monitor glaring at me defiantly, lost in the silence. There are so few moments like these, when the world around me is sleeping and I am not; when the eastern horizon is still black and the landborne stars…
frederick anderson
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Russell Grimley
“You want your usual?” “Has she been in yet?” Russell Grimley was on edge. Sol Abrahams’ café, just across the street from his flat, was his sole supply of victuals in this last year, but just lately his erstwhile girlfriend had taken to eating there too. “Marika? No. She don’t come in this early. You…
frederick anderson
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When the Customers Don’t Count at All…
For once, I’m at a loss to know where to begin! Where DO I begin? Let’s start with this. A couple of weeks ago I was rushed to hospital after suffering severe blood loss, which eventually needed a transfusion to stabilize. The treatment was calm, assured, and apparently successful because, buoyed up by all…
frederick anderson