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Ballerina
“There is one figure standing in front of the building now.” Today’s #TuesdayTales piece is “Ballerina” by Ilina Trendafilova.
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Worms
“One of your car parks now has a seemingly unending hole in it.” Today’s #TuesdayTales piece is “Worms” by Calla Nell Preece.
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The Bone Room
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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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
One Another’s Ghost
After Attracta died she never gave it back.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Better for a Sleep
I had spent two decades in desserts.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Imaginary Houses
Music is a strange and sad language, she was thinking as the bus hissed to attention at her stop.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Ben X
If I could be somewhere else – where?
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Discover The Magic
She was still pretending to sleep when the driver turned off the road.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Good People
The first thing the new neighbours do is erect a tall fence round their garden
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Test
Her mother had been instructed to wait in the lobby, but had slipped in while Lucy was taking the test to determine how normal or abnormal she was.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Gretel and Hansel
I know that my husband never knew anyone like Gretel or Hansel. His life was just different to mine, that’s all.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Life, a short story
When he woke, the house was still and flat. Like a sheet of paper.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Ring
If I call you, you’ll say, hello, I’ll say, hi mum, it’s me, Catherine, then you’ll hang up.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Over the Western Peak
One day, he says, he’ll ride over the top of the western peak and never come back.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Tears of the Unholy
I’ve tried to squelch that terror, to chase it deep inside me so that the watchers might turn away, but the moment of the bargain always wrenches it forth again.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
SOS
No, I didn’t know Trevor all that well, but, you know, I saw him around.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Sorrow
“The shape of her grew smaller and smaller until she was only a speck at the edge of the road.”
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Big Boxes and Bigger Rooms
Do you think that time makes it harder to feel, or harder to pretend you’re not?
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Wife
I liked Ben enough. I didn’t love him; I could never love someone so whole.
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Liminal Life
I’m not having a bad time. It’s just a time.
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