Tag: relationship
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Sebastian
Dim, reflected street lighting found its way into the alley, glimpsing features from the shadows: a large half-opened refuse bin, stacked pallets by a steel-clad door, timber leaning on a wire frame. The boy looked back. Sebastian looked back. “My front yard! Urban Gothic is so alluring, don’t you think?” “No, I don’t.” Nell…
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City, Conformity, Exotic, fiction, Flora, Growing, loneliness, loss, love, relationship, short story -
The Rose
It is one of those hot summer days Daniel will dream about when autumn comes. Daniel is ensconced in his favourite garden recliner beside his little table: beer, book and biscuits; all, he tells himself, he needs from life. Beside him, the gnarled bush rose his wife so loves and tends that it never…
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A Meeting in the Park – A Short Story Revival
Another example of anecdotal sludge snatched from the jaws of File Shredder in the nick of time. I always liked this one: “I think you’re very beautiful.” Martin said. Alana felt the hot scarlet of a blush as it crept up her graceful neck, the way it always did whenever she was surprised by a…
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