Daniel was the first of us to spend the night alone in there.” Today’s unsettling #TuesdayTale is Nicola Varley’s “The Bone Room”.
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You will notice the ruffle of feathers wherever you wander”. Today’s #StorySunday by Sally Gander is “A Field Guide to Birds in Other Forms”.
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When wisecracking mini-Jesus turns up in a Mason jar, and holds his own.
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After Attracta died she never gave it back.
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I’ve been out of The Scrubs for a few days and I want to burrow like a mole.
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Inspired by the author’s old hairdresser who was unable to return to Poland each Christmastime.
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How have your landscapes and relationships with neighbours changed over the past two years? Terena Elizabeth Bell reflects on Covid-19, loss, disconnection and reconnection, in this thoughtful and sharply observed ...
I had spent two decades in desserts.
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I knew something important was happening because a taxi pulled up and Mum told me to come downstairs.” In today’s #StorySunday, a young woman navigates her life on a council ...
What happens when a party goes wrong?
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Music is a strange and sad language, she was thinking as the bus hissed to attention at her stop.
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She worries. God knows why.
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Oh, reticent consumer, presumer of endless parades of dead-soul days. Crash the doors, explore the twin shelves
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If I could be somewhere else – where?
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It makes him feel the same as on the day it happened, but he never cries.
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I see in each ruby a trapped woman in the confines of her man’s world.
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She was still pretending to sleep when the driver turned off the road.
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I waited at the top of his street. Two young boys were racing in go-karts. Every time they zoomed past the bottom lamppost, they hopped out and started up the ...
With fork and knife, thus armed he watched as she began to peel back the skin of the plaice with a delicate precision until its white flesh glistened, perfectly pearlescent, ...
The first thing the new neighbours do is erect a tall fence round their garden
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