Justin's Fiction
By Justin Tuijl
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Burning Wolfhound - prologue
Prologue Anjuna Beach, Goa, India – March 1968 The grey ship was on fire. On the beach a few hippies gathered as the huge flames lit up the night...
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Captain Clarkson and the Age of Thump
a retelling of the legend of Icarus in modern political satire (This was the original version of Project Icarus, “ silly men doing silly things ” ,...
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Departure Gate
“I’m going to have a coffee, how about you?” said the man. “Ok, I’ll have a tea,” said the girl. She took off her coat and hung it on the back of the...
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High Princess (part1)
Sally sat in a coffee shop in Woolwich, London. It was her favourite time of day, when the place was empty mid-morning. She sipped at her coffee and...
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High Princess (part2)
Marlin was on a mission. His quick magical wizard steps echoed down in the deep caverns of the palace. His cloak was, he thought, flapping all...
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Project Icarus
I arrived at the secret RAF base somewhere in the heart of England, on a rainy evening in December. The guard looked at my NUJ press permit as my 911...
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Rattle Ghost - a re-telling of Rumpelstiltskin
Sunday night. Luci stared at the blank Word document; she had been staring at it for hours it seemed. She went into the kitchen and got the pot from...
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Rupert
(Written 2015) Julia stood by the train door as it pulled into Beckton station. She had been watching the nearly empty platform all the time as it...
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The Gimp
John was making coffee when the gimp suit arrived. It had been a normal day until then. The kids had gone off to school, as usual, followed by his...
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The Sofa
Gladys sat down on the sofa with her shopping bags all around her. “Bloody cold out there,” she said. “That it is mum,” said Beryl. “At least we got...
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A Letter to Lachlann
Farquhar Hubert Solomon applied his peeler to a potato and slid away a section of skin. Oh, Deòiridh, he said. Yes? Tell me, when did Lachlann last...
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The Recovery Centre
FADE IN: The scene opens in a typical addiction recovery centre. This one is in Woolwich, London. There are several people in the room waiting. There...
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The Others
I don’t know how long I’ve lived at the station on this planet. Last night I stood outside while the sun set, and the dust clouds rose. A dangerous...
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180 Years Old
There is a biting wind coming across the salt-water loch. The waves are up and the smell of the brine and seaweed is strong. Snow-capped mountains...
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Albert and Perky
He put the book down and turned to his model railway. Pictures of locos were stuck to the wall around it. Feeling for the control box from his bed,...
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The Good House (Part1 of 3)
PART 1 Alison loaded a shell into the breech of the tank’s gun and Claire gave her the thumbs up from the commander’s position. Claire looked outside...
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The Good House (Part 2 of 3)
PART 2 James judged the angles and did calculations in his head. They were hunkered down behind a large fallen tree and not far from a small stream...
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The Good House (Part 3 of 3)
PART 3 James saw her slipping from the foot of the tree and he bought his gun up quickly. Easy as shooting a small creature for food he thought. The...
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Bert
Written 2017 – note: not pro-war 5 June 1944 – the night before D-day The massive shed at the Royal Albert Dock was a chaos of war materials. Bert...
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The Viper
Witten 2014 – Combines the Terry Waite story and a Blakes 7 opening scene as it’s inspirations. The hood made my world dark and the ropes that bound...
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Ead's invisible bin spaceship
Written 2017 Ead pressed the buttons of his spaceship and brought it into land at Trafalgar Square. It was 1pm in the afternoon on a Saturday. No one...
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Computing through the ages
This is a fictional non-fiction piece written in 2014 Where have we come from and where is it all going? I sit with Martin Doubtless of Norwich I.T...
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