“His emotions had been amplified this way ever since the accident.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Under the Falling Sky” by Stephen Brophy.
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“This sickening happens at around the time the girl is due to buy her next packet…” Today’s #StorySunday is “Bind” by Ruth Geldard.
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“Dhimitraq’s late arrival aroused interest”. Today’s #StorySunday takes us to 1940s communist Albania, during the collectivisation period.
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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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I’ve been out of The Scrubs for a few days and I want to burrow like a mole.
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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 ...
She worries. God knows why.
About ...
It makes him feel the same as on the day it happened, but he never cries.
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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 ...
The house isn’t half empty without you.
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The audience members are on their feet, applauding with categorical enthusiasm.
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Sooner or later, everyone has to hear their voice for the first time.
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I call you again and hear nothing back. I cross through swirling motes caught in greenish rays, over the carpet that I swear squelches under my shoes, towards the bedrooms ...
Would a more loving partner have pieced the clues together? Should I have known? It seemed so obvious now.
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For weeks, even months, after the gig, he remembered that feeling, could cling to it every now and then even as it faded or slipped from his grasp. He would ...
“Sometimes you think you know people but you don’t.”
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He’d said I was part-seagull, and he was too.
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“I always wanted to build a house beside the lake with her. It would’ve been a place where we could grow old and fat together and be buried in the ...
“And these things that happen to us. They don’t just live in the past. They echo.”
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He drives a bus, he lives above a shop, he drinks cheap wine, and he is now alone.
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