Strange and Feckless Tales

 

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I, The First Gurrier

I don’t know why this forest. Or this day, this year, this life even. But here I am. You know, they’ll believe a man walked on the moon but as soon...
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Matrices Mound

How I came to meet Feely is one of those tales I would rather not relay in full truth as it would reveal certain small embarrassments about my life...
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O'Connorgrots Grammar School

At O’Connorgrots Grammar School, the students were trying. Trying the patience of Mrs Walsh. These young ones were after all future elites of the...
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The Bradbury

What one would do for a bit of peace and quiet. I enjoy my walks to the library each day, tremendously. Stopping to buy that morning’s paper, then...
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The Oldest of the Type

You could say the country had its share of olds but there wasn’t much sharing. For every claim a thing had to be the oldest of its type of thing,...
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The Worry

I was in Boyd’s Stores watching someone receive good news on their phone when Leventhal parked up beside me with news of Gerry Purcell’s death. I...
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Wesley Tickle's 20th Century Bookstore

Wesley arrived to find the lock jammed with glue again. Third time this month he had to stand outside waiting for the locksmith while passers-by eyed...
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Ambulance (Part One)

A curtain had fallen and it lay on the floor like one of the homeless outside under a blanket. It was a wonder he hadn’t thought to pick it up. To...
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Ambulance (Part Two)

With you gone the ground felt more solid and the walking more painful. My legs were shot and I had a limp which I could not recall having before. My...
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