Tag: advent stories
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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…
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ADVENT STORIES #4 | CLANGERS
The London studios of Rania Tan in Clerkenwell is as welcoming as you’d expect for a brand that has taken the world by storm yet remained so refined. Rania Oduduwa is one hell of a designer; her clothes have graced the closets of the very finest at the highest echelons of society from the A-List…
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ADVENT STORIES #3 | HOME TRUTHS
‘You did what?’ ‘You heard what I said.’ ‘And I was hoping it was a very delayed April Fools joke. What is the matter with you?’ The Beckerman siblings are having dinner at the home of their eldest sister, Elizabeth. This is the first time they have gotten together in three months. Nobody in the…
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ADVENT STORY #2 | Runaway
The phone vibrates on her desk and the caller ID flashes; Rocks. Her cousin Ezme Rose-Jones, Rocks to all, is calling from New York, whatever time it is, it must be super early, but Ava doesn’t answer. Just like she has not answered any of her cousins calls since everything happened. Her cousins wanted to…
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#1 | Tan Line On The Ring Finger
Ava catches sight of the tan line caused by her wedding ring, where it once sat for six years until about two weeks ago. She finally threw in the towel after holding out for some sort of reconciliation, but she knew there was no hope of that ever happening; not after everything that happened since…
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ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 4| SELF CARE; HOME CARE
As we go through this calendar, I will be inserting self care every so often, the aim here is not to out-Christmas ourselves before we get to Christmas Day, rather, we must slowly glide through the holidays, breathing evenly, deeply feeling and making sure to take every care. Self care is what we make of…
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Advent Stories #24 | The Night Before Christmas
’Twas the night before Christmas, in brisk cold of London, Blu wanders from her home in South Kensington enjoying the stillness of the night. She loves the cold, loves staying out in it, the sharpness and the chill that makes one want to snuggle a little deeper and closer. Winter is her favourite season, a…
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Advent Stories #23 | Sins Of The Mother
The phone vibrates for the one hundredth time, quite literally, for the one hundredth time it is Francesca and for the one hundredth time Blu does not answer. Franny left messages, grovelling voice messages pleading with Blu to forgive her. Dada, Maya and Simi called too all asking her to forgive Franny but Blu is…