Tag: SHORT STORIES
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Chapter 5 | Opening Day
It’s opening day! It is opening day! IT IS OPENING DAY AT THE ST CLARE ST TROPEZ! Wylder woke up at 4am with knots in her stomach, beating the sun to her rise, before anyone else in the village she reckons. Nerves threaten to get the better of her and there is only one person…
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CHAPTER 3 | The Meet Cute
Sebastian saw her the second she walked into the club, she had on a slip dress, with a bomber jacket thrown over it casually, emblazoned with Minnie Mouse on the back. He’d been speaking with someone by the cloakroom when she walked in, and the second she walked past him, he could not remember who…
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CHAPTER 2 | ST CLARE, ST TROPEZ
Wylder met with Beatrice, the new hotel manager whom she’d hired after a rigorous interview process first with HR, then Daphne and finally her and her sisters. Fifty people applied for the job filtered down to four by the Human Resources team. Beatrice is old school, but charming, she came with two decades experience in…
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Advent Story #21 | THE STORM
The wind howled outside the windows. The square sits empty and looks forlorn at only 7pm when it should be brimming with life; people on their evening passagiata, men, young and old, playing chess, children frolicking by the fountain… all signs of life withdrawn and the wind whistles loudly into the quiet and eery evening.…
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Advent Story #20 | Meet The Kids
‘Good afternoon. May we speak to Mr Hendrix please?’ Zachary asks the older lady behind the bar. ‘Ha!’ She laughs shortly. ‘Mr Hendrix. You must be new around here. I’m Maya, Hendrix’s mother. And you may call him Hendrix.’ She holds out a hand for the lovely young man standing before her. ‘It’s lovely to…
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Advent Story #18 | Between Mother and Daughter
Are you keeping it?’ Ife turned to face her mother, the ice in which her heart was encased now black and unyielding. Smash it with a sledgehammer and it won’t crack. She knows what her mother is asking, hence she wants to be unequivocal in her answer, no talking around it like her mother would…
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Advent Story #17 | Truth Hurts
‘Mrs Walden there is someone is here to see you.’ Celeste, the maid, informs Josephine who has been in her library avoiding the world outside of it and reminiscing on old times. Emerson stands in the doorway and Josephine’s face dawns with knowing. ‘Aunty Josephine, we need to talk.’ Aunty Josephine not aunty Jojo like…
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Advent Story #6 | Into the Woods
There is a gentle knock on Ife’s door, something she is not expecting, because she is not expecting anyone. Besides, no one knows her here, although she has made friends with Valentina the ice cream shop owner, she does not know where she lives. She answers anyway. ‘Bonasera.’ ‘Bonasera.’ It is not the ice-cream shop…
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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…