Tag: Short Story
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The Observed
Miriam looked back from the bedroom window overlooking the park. “Somethin’s goin’ on back there,” she said, to Gerald, who was actually watching the events himself. “I’d best phone your mother!” She left the room, and Gerald could hear the whirring sound of her old-fashioned telephone. He brought his attention back onto the park. The…
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Stand Off
Aphrodite looked around. The garden where they’d landed was beautiful… trees around the perimeter, a small lake over there and a flower bed underneath the chariot. She felt sad. Why couldn’t Athena have landed in the centre of the lawn? There were strange white lines that she could see marking out a rectangle with two…
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Leftovers
It’s over. For another year. Time to take down all of the fake cobwebs, fancy lanterns, candles and other decorations, and box them away. Time to put the witch back in her cage and the bat back in its cave. No, that’s not right. The witch in the cave and the bat, the cage. No,…