Tag: advent stories
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Advent Story #5 – Comment Section
‘Do you see what they are saying about her?’ Zoya has not stopped reading the comment section of the many tabloids in as many days. The talk with their father turned everything on its head for them, it really was not what it seemed, and she wanted to beat up every single person talking shit…
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Advent Story 4 – Ice Cream for Breakfast
It has been four days since she blew up her life and Ife has not gotten out of bed, except to bathe and change from one cashmere set to another. The wind rustles outside her windows, and she burrows further into the bed, beneath the duvet. This house is cold. Are Italians allergic to heating?…
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Advent Story #3 | The Kids Are Not Okay
News breaking this morning is of the Labour MP and future leader of the party as the polls stand, Tristan Walden the third’s affair with one of his wife’s best friend Rellie Anderson. Details are still unfolding about the affair, but it is supported by video evidence of the two of them kissing in a…
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Advent Stories | #1 – Secrets. We All Have Them
Ife started to breathe easy as soon as the plane was in the air, well, easy is putting it lightly because take off is her least favourite part of flying. However, in relation to everything that had happened in the past twenty-four hours, she is breathing easy. Her life had been blown to bits and…
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#19 – Between Friends
‘Hey you.’ ‘Hello. How are you?’ JJ and Rocks exchange a fond hug, ‘hey stranger.’ She greets Sebastian, Rocks’ husband, ever so fondly. ‘Don’t make me feel too guilty. It’s good to see you.’ Sebastian and JJ exchange a kiss on each cheek, they’d been friends for as long as she and Rocks reconnected in…
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#15- OH JORJA
‘JJ.’ ‘Get out.’ ‘JJ.’ Rocco tries to step in. ‘Get. Out.’ JJ’s eyes never left her mother’s. ‘Don’t go.’ Rocco says to Gyll. ‘I will.’ JJ makes to step back into the waiting elevator. ‘JJ come on.’ ‘Come on? Just in case you don’t know, I am mad at you that you would let her…
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#14- Three Months And A Baby
Rocco has never really seen JJ lose her composure the way she is about to now, they argue, have fights, but the last time she lost her mind during a fight was three months into their relationship… … All week JJ had been feeling queasy and waspish, the shop was busier than normal, word had…
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#13- CRASH
‘What are you doing here?’ There were a lot of things JJ expected when she walked into her home after a long day at the shop; dinner either cooked by Rocco or their chef, excited children as normal or quiet ones as they did their homework, some friends over, Rocco watching a basketball game, at…
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#10- All In.
‘I’d love to see you again.’ 3am in London in a room filled with flowers and balloons, over plates of cake and glasses of champagne, JJ and Rocco sit to their first “date”. Rocco was smitten by her, absolutely head over heels. ‘I’d love to as well.’ JJ corks her head to the side a…