Category: SHORT STORIES
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Advent Stories #18 | When Love Is Not Enough
‘Dad did you and mum love each other?’ Brodie is having dinner with his father tonight, just the two of them. Thomas has seen the hullaballoo surrounding his son’s love life, and of course, witnessed the debacle at his wedding in the autumn. He really liked Blu, she is the first woman to have made…
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Advent Stories #17 | All I Want For Christmas…
‘All I want for Christmas is you!!!! You…oo…ou babyyy!’ Blu is sure she is in hell, this the only way to describe this car journey with her friends who decided to ambush her this morning, they literally packed her bags and Dada threatened to bathe her if she didn’t do it herself. They were forcing…
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Advent Stories #16 | Old Wounds
Blu felt her heart stop, holding the phone in her shaking hands. Right on cue, her friends ring all at once. Bloody alerts, social media is alight with the picture of Brodie and Lana Smith exiting Annabel’s, some even going as far as setting the wedding date, others speculating if Lana is already pregnant. Leila…
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Advent Stories #15 | Old Wars, Old Enemies
‘Mrs Sterling. How lovely to see you again.’ Franny was waiting for her coat from the cloakroom at Annabel’s having just finished a lunch meeting, when she spotted a familiar face amongst other diners. She would know that face and hair style anywhere; Leila Sterling. She decided to drop by to say hello to the…
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Advent Stories #14 | Love Between Sisters
‘Good morning.’ Abi finds Blu in the kitchen, she went looking for her in the guest bedroom where she slept, but she was already out of bed, her sister the consummate early riser. She never could understand how Blu could wake up before the sunrise, even in the summer. ‘Morning.’ Blu was going to sit…
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Advent Stories #13 | The Do-Over
Brodie woke up at 2am, his phone having ping’d with an email; force of habit, he sleeps with his phone on and on his bedside bureaux. Another ping another email. Another ping another email. ‘What the fuck?’ he reached for the phone, 22 emails. Ping! 23. All from Blu Braithwaite. Ping! 24. ‘Fucking hell.’ He…
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Advent Stories #12 | The Meet Not So Cute
Blu was running flat out at the studio, as was her team. This client was a nightmare and when this project is all over she never wanted to hear another sports metaphor, ever again. Truth is, this is her biggest client and she wanted to deliver, but the VP of Corporate Branding, the head honcho…
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Advent Stories #11 | Not A Good Morning
‘Good morning Mum.’ Anais is sitting at the table waiting on her mother to appear for breakfast. She flew in last night from a buying trip and is exhausted but this conversation with her mother is one that needs to be had. Her brother is hurting, and it is his entirely their mother’s fault. He…
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Advent Stories #10 | Sister Dearest
Blu needs a plan. She returned home to settle and get her life together, but so far her life has revolved around one drama after another and she hates being stuck in this kind of rot. If matters aren’t bad enough she is being whizzed to her sister’s estate in Oxfordshire, by her brother. Dear…