Category: SHORT STORIES
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ADVENT STORIES #13 | DIAMONDS ON ICE
Ava watches precariously as the workmen settle the last of the ice sculptures on the glass exhibition table. The Cartier Holiday Launch is officially the hottest invitation in London town. The party is being held at the iconic walkways of Tower Bridge, after hours; one bridge passageway is the main exhibition unit with the diamonds…
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ADVENT STORIES #12 | ADULTS IN THE PLAYGROUND
‘Mummy where are we going?’ ‘Out to do something we should have already done. Arms up please.’ Oliver raises his hand so his mother can clip his seat belt in. She gives him a kiss on the head before heading to the driver side. ‘Ready?’ Oliver nods. ‘Are we going to get the Christmas tree?’…
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ADVENT STORIES #11 -RUMOURS ON THE PLAYGROUND
‘Daddy do you still love mummy?’ Ollie asks his father. Just like Ava instructed, AJ picked Oliver from school, and they are spending the afternoon together before he returns him home later tonight. ‘I do. We love each other but we love you much more. Why would you ask that question?’ ‘Jonathan said you don’t…
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ADVENT STORIES #10 | BLAST FROM AN UNWANTED PAST
Dear River, I have written this email a thousand and one times and each time I fell short. I can say all the sorries I want I know it will never make a difference to you and I know you have a right to be mad at me and nothing I have to say will…
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ADVENT STORIES #9 | AND SO IT GOES
Today Ava is early, they are on time for the gates, her son had a good breakfast this morning, as good as can be; yoghurt, granola and berries. It involved no stove or hot stuff. He ate, he loved it and they were out the door in time to make the gates when every normal…
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ADVENT STORIES #8 | DUST SETTLING
‘You need to talk to her AJ. She cannot speak to me like that.’ Wendy is still fuming from the showdown with Ava at Oliver’s school. ‘I’m sorry, I will talk to her.’ AJ and Wendy have been at it all day since the meeting with Ava at Oliver’s school. It was his fault, he…
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ADVENT STORIES #7 | A SHOWDOWN
‘That looks terrible mummy.’ Ollie takes one look at the concoction his mother is whipping up for breakfast and makes a face. ‘Thanks sweetie.’ Children. ‘Can we not get some croissant and juice instead?’ ‘No we cannot. I thought we made a deal, I cook one breakfast and one dinner in the week and we…
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ADVENT STORIES #6 | A WIFE BETWEEN BROTHERS
River pulls into the driveway of his Windsor home, the lights are on, in every room. His children would be in the living room or their bedrooms not every room of the house but these are things he doesn’t mind as long as they are home with him. Home. What does that even mean? He’d…
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ADVENT STORIES #5 | BETWEEN FRIENDS
‘How come none of us knew?’ ‘Well, he is private. Very private. He might run the most exclusive luxury tech company but he keeps himself pretty much to himself. He hardly even attends industry things so it’s no surprise.’ ‘Besides that’s not something you want the whole world talking about.’ Ava, Annabel and Jamilah are…