Category: Short Stories
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S is for Snake – A to Z Challenge April 2015
In the depth of the woods, Sisi woke up hearing the chant of her favourite songbird. Her whole body twitched. “What a beautiful sound”, she thought to herself whilst slowly uncoiling and slivering out of her comfortable nest. She often regretted how in the past this very type of bird…
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R is for Rose – A to Z Challenge April 2015
This is a continuation of “L is for Leaving“. Nora laid the dried roses into a brown shoebox. The roses were a present from Peter from when they started going out, from when they still lived in the same town. Now months later, with many train hours between Nora and…
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P is for Penguin – A to Z Challenge April 2015
“Thank you”, I heard a fragile voice say. I looked around, I could see no one who could have spoken to me, after all I just got home, but no one else was there yet. “I am here”, I heard the voice again, I looked down into my arms, the penguin that…
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L is for Leaving – A to Z Challenge April 2015
“Another kiss, just one before you leave me!” she heard Peter shout one last time, but it was too late, she was leaving him behind, it was over. A few hours earlier Nora was crying. She was sitting on Peter’s bed, packing her old-fashioned suitcase. Looking up, she saw Peter standing…
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J is for Jump – A to Z Challenge April 2015
“Just go ahead and do it already!” Someone barked from behind Josephine. She looked around into a frog like face. “Erm,” she stammered looking scared with her hands gripping the railing as if her life was at risk, “you go ahead”. The unfriendly boy passed looking at her as if…
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E is for Emerald – A to Z Challenge April 2015
While rearranging the few diamond rings on sale a rundown shop, with leaky ceiling, Leopold was humming a tune from his youth. He smiled at the thought of his big projects he had 43 years ago, back then he wanted to be in a fancy street, selling engagement rings with colourful precious…
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D is for Door – A to Z Challenge April 2015
He could not forget that moment when he saw her for the first time. Each time he sees a big blue door he thinks back to that moment. It was a spring morning, he had just shut his front door and was on his way to work, when he caught sight of a young, beautiful…
Solveig Werner 