Tag: small town

• Doctor Basu

  

  “He’s at it again!”   Muriel Hornbellows announced angrily.  “Half past seven on Sunday morning!  There’s no peace!” Burton Hornbellows groaned and pulled a pillow over his head.  His wife’s obsession with their neighbour’s DIY activities was more irksome to him than the sound of hammering that vibrated through his bed frame. True, since Doctor…

  frederick anderson

  June 25, 2021

  Short Stories, Uncategorized

  Diagnosis, DIY, Doctor, fiction, gossip, home, medicine, mystery, Peaceful, Renovations, small town, street, Surgery

• A Place That Was Ours Chapter Two. The Bridge

  I was staring down into the deep fissure formed by the banks where the town had met the river, long ago.  The water’s knife was blunted now, with neither fervour nor edge to cut its valley deeper, but the once-upon-a-time was easy to imagine… When coal mines prospered, the river’s shore was called ‘The Fellings’,…

  frederick anderson

  December 1, 2017

  Uncategorized

  bullying, childhood, depression, family, fiction, Friendship, growing up, humour, relationships, Rite of Passage, Serial, small town, society