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Continue reading →: The AgendaTerence arrived about five minutes late. Just after the story had properly started. He sneaked into through the fire exit door of the meeting room trying to make as little noise as possible. Congealed egg stuck stubbornly to his stubble, and he had a corner of wayward toast in his…
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Continue reading →: Flat White – short storyMike watched the electronic boards flicker round to the inevitable delayed notifications. Not only was he now going to miss the first hour of the conference, but he also knew he would be forced to hang around in a ridiculous coffee shop for an hour whilst the rail network corrected…
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Continue reading →: RestorationPlease forget about my name. It’s Constance Bytheway. I always felt like I stole it from an old lady when I was born. Perhaps, in time, I will learn to grow into it. I used to spend my days in my room mostly, trying to write beautiful stories about ugly…
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Continue reading →: Becoming a better kind of ghostDue to the high levels of domestic accident these days, There’s a chance that I might be a newly formed Ghost
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Continue reading →: Pareiodoila or Places where I almost definitely saw the face of JesusThe first time it struck me I thought Jesus! It’s Jesus! Right there in the bathroom floor tile, Don’t tell me you can’t really see it, No one else wears their hair in that style And after that, well he was everywhere, Omnipotent some people say, In the crease of…
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