Category: Object
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Knicker Pocket Glory
Today’s Silver Spryers activities: Armchair Aerobics and Bingo. I dread getting old. I mean really old, not just sixty and jetting off on exotic holidays around the world like my father – the life of bloody Riley – hiking into the forests to see rare and exotic birds with other crazy loons. He might as…
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Never Trust a Blender
Pete gawped at the Morphy Richards blender on the kitchen side. ‘What happened to the new one?’ Claire grimaced. ‘Err… slight accident,’ she mumbled. It wasn’t unusual of her to breaking things. ‘Clumsy Claire’ as Pete called her. But this wasn’t a broken plate or chipped mug. This was a potential divorce! Rewind back to…
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The Museum
This piece is inspired from my writing group last week after given the prompt in italics below. I originally planned to start from the prompt, but ended up creating a backstory instead. Sebastian had been working at the museum for almost a year now, having quit computer programming to follow his dream. He had always…
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A shadow of Time
This comes from a life writing course I went on a couple of weeks ago. I used the reality of my house as the setting for this story. Whilst clearing out the loft, she discovers an ancient key to an old boat house and decides to explore. On her return, she finds that her house…