Silver Spun Sand Stories
Various short stories
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The Purple Scarf
And all the while, the incessant sun, stared mockingly down at her - in all its motionless orange-red splendour from the top of the mountain - seeming to loom ever- large over her helpless body. (edited)
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"It's Good to Talk"
(Re-edit 05/03/2011) "We never really had the time to say goodbye, not properly, and that’s what was so hard to take.
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"Let's Start Again"
A fine-tune of an oldie.
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'Love Me Do' (I.P.)
(Edit) There we were - my sister’s boyfriend and me; and Monday’s washing, flapping on the line...
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'The Gentle Giant'
I’d not realised before how tall he was – six feet four, at least.
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'The Road Less Travelled'
“It’s not all bad news; your condition is not life-shortening...There’s certain to be a cure in the next ten years, or so...”
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(I.P.) At the Top of the Hill...
It is this hill which keeps me sane...I come up here to write.
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A Day Like Any Other (IP)
As usual, am woken at 5.00 a.m. by an earthmoving experience...
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Angels Don't Bite their Nails
It hit Julie like a sledge-hammer when her elder sister eventually lost a long-fought battle against cancer
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Bad Writing Prize (I.P.)
I.P.
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Fireworks in the Snow
The story of one remarkable lady.
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To Glimpse a Butterfly
She didn't look that old; not like everyone else there...
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Letting Go
“Happy Mother’s day!” she says, standing in the front-porch. “These are for you,” thrusting two balloons in my hand, tied with ribbons ...
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Sons and Mothers
IP. Based on a true story. You are what you eat, but some people are what they wear.
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This Side Up
One year on, and the hospice in which my daughter was so wonderfully cared for, asked me to write a short for their magazine ...
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Saturday Night's Alright...
I.P. A story in 200 words
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The Music in Me (I.P.)
Approximately 112 song titles, plus a few lyrics. Have attached discography for all interested ;-)
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Waiting for the Thaw
They tell me guilt is normal...when things like this happen.
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Grace and Favours
Meal-times were never quite the same convivial affair though, after we were rehoused in the October of nineteen-fifty-eight.
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The Application of the Mask (I.P.)
Painstakingly, technicians crafted a tailor-made mask – precise to every last curve and contour...
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Two Husbands and a Lover
(Edit) If there truly was a 'god' up there somewhere, why was he putting her through this hell?
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Never Can Say Goodbye
(Edit 19/01/2011) "Whenever you look up, there I shall be and whenever I look up, there will be you.’ Gabriel’s resolve, “Far From the Madding Crowd”, Thomas Hardy
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Hoping for the Best
You exchange a brief glance and it’s understood you both will sit it out,however long it takes.
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Flashback!
Leaving the majority of streetlamps behind, she heads for open country, and glances up as bats flit here and there.
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Never Look Down
(Edit 17/03/2011) “... and when they were up they were up and when they were down they were down...
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Eddie Babe
Love may be blind, as they say, but it’s far from stupid.
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There's No Such Thing as Just an Ordinary Day (IP)
I remember that earth-shattering day like it was yesterday.
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Old Habits Die Hard
"And before you ask...yes, I have locked the back door and put the key under the flowerpot, for all it matters...now."
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Gone Fishing
“I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be a fish...nothing else to do except watch us, watching them."
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The Anticipated Stranger
(Edit) One last night in Mumbai...the monsoon having just arrived.
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Drop-dead Gorgeous
No ordinary client, nor ordinary venue...although I had been there professionally on a couple of occasions in the past.
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The Mouse Ran Up the Clock
Days such as today really fazed him...even bearing in mind this was Ashworth – one of England’s top three high security psychiatric hospitals.
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You Know How it Is
You’re cruising along, quite nicely, thank you, and then she decides it’s time for the patter of tiny feet in the house.
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Fireworks in the Snow - Five Years On
Five years on, and although it only seems like yesterday, life has moved on, as it always will.
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Pretty in Pink
They said it might help some, if I talked to you, so I hope it’s OK. Pop was eighteen, Mom – sixteen, when they married, and I was three. Mom, little...
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All in the April Evening
Middle Wallop used to be such a quiet little village...
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Fergal's Wake (I.P.)
Just brushing your suit off, love; them undertakers have done a good job. I was going to say, ‘Hold still,’ but I guess I don’t have to.
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Terms of Endearment
You’re cruising along, quite nicely, thank you, and then she decides it’s time for the patter of tiny feet...
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A Gambian Experience
It made me think about those small things in life we take for granted.
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There are Days, and then there are Days
The day after the 'end of the world' was the last anyone ever saw of him.
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Can't Stop the Music
The I.P. this week is to take a song title and go from there. Well, there are approximately 120 song titles here, plus a few lyrics for good measure. Discography attached, for anyone interested.
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The Story of One Remarkable Lady
It’s not the dates that matter – it’s the space between them that counts. Andrea Parker MA 02.08.1968 – 31.12.2007
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One Night Only (Part 1)
One night only, and the curtain went up a while back.
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One Night Only (Part 2)
Never did like goodbyes, anyway, and we’ve already said ours; to the one person who really mattered.”
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Surface Tension
"Goldfish only have a memory span of five seconds.” “A few – that’s true, but others can remember too much..."
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Crystal Balls and Commas
True to form, an earthmoving experience wakes me at 5.00 a.m.; my husband re-launching himself into our bed after taking a pee. Getting in and out of...
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No Angels
It was raining. Standing at the open French windows, a redolent wind blew a strand of hair across her cheek, and for a second she fancied there was a certain hint of Byzance in the air– Julie’s late sister’s signature perfume.
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Angels Don't Dye...Do They?
No ordinary client, nor ordinary venue...although I had been there, professionally, on a couple of occasions in the past. Nothing quite like this though...
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The Anticipated Stranger
His last night in Mumbai...eight o’clock, and he’d be on his way home...or so he told the barman on leaving, after a couple of drinks too many.
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Breaking the Code
It was the summer of 1963. The Stones were in the all-important charts with Little Red Rooster. It was banned, by my dad, in our house. ‘Sexual undertones’, he reckoned.
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The X Factor
"Well then, Mr and Mrs Daniels, I have the results of your tests in front of me, and the news is not good..."
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La Fille Mal Gardee
Almost dark...most of the students, long gone...
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Sons and Mothers
(This true story inspired by Poetry Monthly) 'We are what we eat', some might say, whilst others argue, 'We are what we wear'.
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The Long Walk Home
(Inspired by Poetry Monthly) Eerie...the dimly lit alleyway, but it was quicker.
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Breaking the Ice
You'll never believe this, but there's a tiny pond in our new garden...it was hidden by the shed...been so busy indoors since we moved in...
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Sun, Moon, Stars and Rain
It's around lunchtime on Christmas Day, 2007, as we negotiate the maze of corrridors...an occasion I had been both dreading and looking forward to. She's smiling - sitting up in bed...resplendent in red, staying true to her star sign, Leo...
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Fireworks in the Snow
(Repost)... 'it's not the dates that matter...it's the space in between that counts' In loving memory of Andrea Christine Parker MA - 02.08.1968 – 31.12.2007
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To Glimpse a Butterfly
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Play, You...Play Me
Mmm...this is nice; a roaring log fire, my favourite tune. Unexpected, at the very least...no, don't stop.
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Exactly What is Parkinson's, Anyway?
To mark the start of Parkinson's Awareness Week
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