Tag: youth
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The Insect
The Insect Sometimes the span of a lifetime is needed to make an assessment of people. Provincial – that defined Tark’s self-image in the early nineteen-sixties. An insurance clerk with artistic pretensions and a deeply dissatisfied perspective upon his small-town existence, he had convinced himself of one thing; his destiny was to devote his life…
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A Measure of Living
It’s 6:00 am on a February morning. The air is chill as I slip out from beneath warm blankets. Ice has formed inside the window pane of my bedroom and I scrape it away to peer into the darkness at the frosted world beyond. It is 1960. I am fourteen years old. Outside our front…
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Siobhan
A short story that got lost somewhere… Ade’s walk was furtive, feet scratching at the pavement, eyes downcast. Sometimes when he walked this pavement he would direct his gaze to shop windows, watching himself go by – but not today. Sometimes people stared at him, their faces masked in suspicion at the Asian youth with…
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