Rigmarole

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I have 10 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 7660 times and 6 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Colette O'Hare

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So long, Mary Ann.....

She was not in favour of electricity - candlelight is much kinder - like snow, don't you think, on a ruined landscape. Eight of us squeezed round a table illuminated by ecclesiastical sized candles. She had not cooked anything, but then she never had, according to her daughters. She had ordered a Christmas hamper from a well known store, and even more astonishingly, it had been delivered. Though true to form, according to her daughters, she had not bothered to open it. The blag had worked. She had lost interest.
Cherry

MISTAKEN (revised)

You asked me once After a marathon session in the Chip I fell over and broke my glasses If I loved you I said yes It was never mentioned again It was the truth To me, there are different kinds of love It can change To you, people don't go back on their word
Cherry

IT ISN'T OVER TILL THEY PULL THE PLUG

You'll see a great change in him, his sister said, allowing him to go first into the ward. She didn't say - specially since you haven't been here since last year - but it was implied. In the high side hospital bed, Brian's father appeared to be already dead. Waxen, bluish eyelids, sweeping glossy black eyebrows, fine prominent nose. He seemed his old handsome self again, spruced up, ready to meet his maker No longer the dishevelled, unkempt, unshaven, huddled bundle, chain smoking in front of the television, lost in the imaginary community he had come to rely on for company, resenting unwanted visitors who asked him silly questions during his favourite programmes

Mistake

Your skin is not calm Your eyes stay watchful
Cherry

This Weekend

The head and shoulder shots were ok, she said, but they didn't like the full length ones, they said next time tell your friend to focus on the subject and not the background. I didn't go to the second lesson, I said, I was barred out. I told you that.

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