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Looking Backwards
First, my thanks to Edward Bellamy, for borrowing the title of his interesting book, written long ago. The concept of “looking backward” has always...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (3)
He came up and built the pyramid slowly, so everybody could watch, the three silent ones first. He wiped his palms down the front of his apron and...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (2)
There had been a boy standing at the top of the spur, by the funnel cake stand, while the girl won. Kurt had seen him without looking at him. The boy...
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Courtesy Calls: The Midway (1)
Kurt had come for the weigh-off, and the weigh-off ran late. They held it in the agriculture barn at the low end of the fairgrounds, under a row of...
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The Doll's House Chapter 6.
Chapter Six . Siddly. Siddly was quiet. The houses were close together, their roofs sloping low as if trying not to be noticed. The streets were...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July Part 2
All the buses had gone, as had the ambulance. Mr. Peach was bent over a car talking to someone inside. As I ran up, the door opened and Mr Plunkett...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July
Chapter Seven. School Sports. At the beginning of July, the Headmaster of my Junior School stood on the stage. Mr. Plunkett took Assembly every...
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Chapter 20 - Peace
I’m floating. The void. Endless void. No memories this time. Nothing to trouble the void. No voices either. For the first time in what feels like...
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Keep On (6)
The man looked at his watch again and then at the room. He took it in the way he had taken in the little room downstairs. The calendar with the...
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Keep On (5)
The first thing he did in the dark was find the switch. He knew where it was. End of the bench, front of the gray box. He leaned for it the way he...
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