Tag: patience
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Abel
Finally, the gaudily-clothed party of holiday makers had audibly subsided to a conspiratorial murmur. Their car stood deserted in the boatyard car park having disgorged its umpteenth suitcase, their enthusiastic spaniel dog had signed its name to almost everything that could offer an intriguing scent, and now they huddled beside the mooring in two […]
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Gift Wrapped
“Gif’ wrapped?” She is in her fifties, piped into the store’s idea of what a woman should wear in her thirties if she were a size 12. She is not a size twelve. Plastic smile. “Would’y’like to include-a-message?” “Sorry?” “Message. Would’y’l….” “Oh! Sorry. No thanks.” The boxed perfume and cologne upon which […]
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