Category: SHORT STORIES
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Advent Stories #15- The Morning After
Sloane lies awake in bed, Fitz is already left for work. She looks over at his side of the bed, there is a note for her on the pillow. Please eat breakfast, don’t go into the office, your assistant has cleared your schedule. Talk to your sisters, please don’t call the police. I love you…
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Advent Stories #14- Back To Reality
Bella and Kaiser were met at the airport by his brothers, after one week on the run, as Sloane put it, they left their haven in the provincial town of Roussillon and stepped out into the real world waiting on them. Kaiser’s mother was still mad at him, but she’s managed to be kind to…
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Advent Stories #13- Serendipity
Fitz remembers the first time he met Sloane. It was at a Jay-Z concert at the Barclay Arena, one he decided to attend at the very last minute, when his friends wouldn’t take no for an answer. She is best friends with his cousin, April and he’d heard about her from a bunch of people…
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Advent Stories #12- 911 We Have An Emergency
The taxi pulls up outside the Upper West Side home of Harper and Sloane, the girls thank the driver, pay his fare and tip him the requisite twenty percent before hoping out of the car. ‘Here we are.’ Bea says at they walk to the door of the house on the corner of 91st street…
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Advent Stories #11- The Mom Ultimatum
‘Mom please…mom please hear me out. Mom…’ Kaiser cannot get a word in edgeways. He has been on the phone to his mother thirty minutes and she has not stopped. ‘Hear you out saying what? You got married to a woman you met two days ago. Have you lost your damn mind?’ ‘No mom, I…
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Advent Stories #10- Sisterly Love
‘The paper is failing.’ Bella says as soon as they sit down, Sloane finally accepted her offer to sit. ‘How?’ ‘I didn’t listen to you. I got complacent and I did not set up the website in time so everything was stale. Returns are terrible and readers are fleeing online.’ Sloane sighed. She suspected this…
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Advent Stories #9- All Is Not Well With All
‘She said that?!’ ‘Yes she did.’ Bea has just finishing telling Serena about her fall out with her mother-in-law. Three hours into the flight and she doesn’t feel any better about it. The fight with her mother-in-law was always going to happen. Since marrying Edward she indulged the woman, turned a blind eye or deaf…
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Advent Stories #8- Ambush in Provence
‘Sloane, I can explain.’ ‘Good. Start talking because I would like to understand just what the fuck you think you’re doing.’ Sloane takes menacing steps into the hotel suite, tired, hungry and in need of a stiff drink, her sister had better have an explanation for what she did. A damn good one. ‘It’s not…
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Advent Stories #7- Brothers-In-Law
Fitz is just getting in his car when his phone rings. He answers without looking, because he expects it to be Sloane. Hopefully on her way back home. ‘Hello.’ ‘Hey there he is. What’s good?’ It is his brothers-in-law. Edward and Gabriel. ‘Hey you two, what’s good?’ Fitz puts the phone on speaker before pulling…