Steve Button
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I have 56 stories published in
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Steve Button
My stories
Heart of Stone
It seems unlikely now, this piece of stone snatched from a beach somewhere on Tenerife. She found it. I wonder if she set out to find an astonishing souvenir,
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The Vulture Cage
These unwashed, threadbare shirts flutter to earth and flap in packs like filthy feathered yobs. Or tissue-thin old men shoulders hunched and huffing on the edge of things.
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Scenes from a Working Life
Eighty-eight, bent double In ovens at the retirement home, Scouring for beer money, Telling the old bloke I wasn’t his son And no, I didn’t have his slippers on, Time after time.
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Laying In
The hands, almost monstrous, are chipped and weathered, huge and could encompass a child’s head easily. He grabs the logs he’s cut and stacks them in the shed,
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Loitering
And so he sat and thought between the soup and the semolina, how this or that would be a good idea, considered how a lawn needed seeding, or how a life needed living
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