The scent of leather shoes and the anatomy of a breakup
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“You look across, catch her eye, and she hides behind her stick of candyfloss.” Today’s #TuesdayTales piece is “Death” by Joshua Oldridge.
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A woman returns to the past and is filled with sounds and sensations
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“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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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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Inspired by the author’s old hairdresser who was unable to return to Poland each Christmastime.
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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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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 ...