Tag: Short Story
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The Unicorn Challenge: Lawman
1652. The country is getting back to normal after nine years of civil war, not that the residents of Lumdy noticed anything different. Suffering from their self-imposed exclusion from the rest of the region due to their mini Plague outbreak, most of the villagers were gaunt, withdrawn and lawless. They thought nothing of helping themselves…
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The Unicorn Challenge: The Expedition
Doctor Livingtosh looked over to his companion, Master Matlock Baines, who’d only ever so slightly lost his moustachioed proper Victorian appearance in the scuffle with the mysterious El Bango tribe they’d accidentally stumbled across deep in the middle of the Jungle Rainforest. ‘I say, my good fellow,’ the doctor said cheerfully as he hung, hands…
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Out In The Open
‘We won, Ognar… we won…’ Myrtle clutched the (rather oversized) Great Chicken Run trophy as she beamed from ear to ear (with reference to the ears on her head, and not those on her own one of its kind blouse she created and was wearing), ‘no longer are we the laughing stock of the street!’…
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The Orb
The designers for the Summer House catalogue thought they’d captured the magic and majesty of what was originally called the Garden Shed perfectly. The out house building had had a new lick of paint, and powerful new light bulbs fitted throughout. The photographers came one slightly cloudy night of a Full Moon and took a…
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The Unicorn Challenge: The Great Chicken Run
The day had been a huge success, by and large. Myrtle and Ognar Rance won the race easily, by more than one hour and forty-three minutes, on their dual pedal powered chicken hut. Some said the race should have been limited only to those on foot, but so comical was their contraption’s design, which had…
