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GONE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES 3: TAKE A WALK WITH ME
My mind has gone through the whole gamut of emotions possible in the last two minutes. From disappointment, to rage, and finally, to determination. Read More …
GONE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES 2: ANONYMOUS
I knew this was the moment of truth. Crunch time. The ultimate decision-making moment. The moment I’d been dreading for weeks. Contradictorily, it was also the moment exciting me beyond anything I’d experienced before. Read More …
GONE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES 1: I SAW RED
In retrospect, I shouldn’t have come to my wife’s work Christmas party. For the last three days I’ve been on the bad end of a gastro bug. I’m only just beginning to get over it. Because of the bug I’ve missed work for two days and I can’t remember the last time that happened. I’m a contract shearer, if you’re interested. Read More …
CUSTODY OF ALICE
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Dave and Rebecca Brown, a couple married twelve years, were an hour and a half into their first tripartite, court ordered counselling session. Dave was only attending due to the strong insistence of his lawyer. Post nuptial agreements were a relatively new phenomenon in the legal system and Dave’s lawyer wanted every ‘i’ dotted and ‘t’ crossed. The previous ninety minutes had been dominated by talk between the counsellor and Rebecca, with Dave sitting, tight lipped, notebook and pen in hand. Periodically, he scribbled something on the pad. Read More …
OASIS?
Susan Smith, Susie to her friends, picked up her bag of purchases from the passenger side of the car, shut the door, and headed to go inside through the internal door in the garage to the house. Just as she reached it she looked back, in thought. Read More …
LIKE FATHER
“Hi, Jenny, thanks for coming. I…, I need a friend right now.”
“That’s fine, Mum, exams aren’t for another month yet.” Read More …
ONE-SIDE CONVERSATION
“Oh my god, darling. I’d no idea that I’d hit you so hard. How bad is it?” Read More …
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CATH
IF YOU KNOW how to, all the technology available to the average Josie in the twenty-first century makes private investigators and high-priced surveillance equipment somewhat redundant, especially if your husband, like mine, still lives in the twentieth. Read More …
A STORY TOLD IN SONG: 3
Hello, it’s me
I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet
To go over everything
They say that time’s supposed to heal ya
But I ain’t done much healing Read More …