She longed to go outside and sit with her new tenant, Tom, but she restrained herself from doing so.
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I don’t feel the need to lie when she arches one eyebrow and says: “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?”
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Gaz has nabbed a road sign of a man digging a hole, Bilbo’s picked flowers but he won’t say why, and Matty’s filled his handbag with salt and pepper
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Over wire-rimmed glasses, Virginia Woolf peers down at the drawing, takes in the words, breathes in an imagined Argentinian starry sky.
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A pair of black cats. But unlike the squirrels, they were anticipating my arrival.
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I scurried as fast as my feet could take me through the livin room, slidin on cool tiles and headed straight to my secret listenin spot cause I knew there ...
It was love at first sight. They were both peering at the same framed card.
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They didn’t hate Santa, they were just frustrated with the long, repetitive hours and needed someone to punish.
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He tried to pinpoint the moment that it began, the exact moment when he wasn’t sure why he was going, but it all felt too nebulous.
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Normally, I ignored calls from numbers I didn’t recognise but twenty-two missed calls in the span of an hour was worrisome.
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A flock of swallows has just flown overhead. This is their time of night, just as dusk is beginning to deepen.
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I’m not used to this kind of attention from men. I’ve only been a woman, noticeably so at least, for a year, after all.
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She seems unaffected by the midges now, her light clothes flapping them away. It needles you, her comfort in surroundings that make you feel so out of place.
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The blossom’s winged petals flapped and flailed and stuck to the little bare legs and the new blue dress and that glossy hair, she winced. Stop, she wanted to shout. ...
They are your earliest memory. Beaked noses. Hair like clouds.
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The sign was a few kilometres back, but I’d told myself I wouldn’t stop. That she isn’t there.
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I drop my son on the floor and he shatters.
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Is it kidnapping when it’s your own children? I hope not.
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I often think about the moon. I wonder how I may sail to her.
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Taken aback, she forgot to respond. Her hand hung limply in his palm, until he dislodged it.
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