Stories tagged “England”
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We Are Lost
A man sat alone, hunched over the counter of a bar in England. As he sipped at his beer, he plunged into thought. He thought of the pressure that had been put on him all his life. Pressure from his parents, his teachers, his bosses. They were expectati...
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Sticky Footprints
The bullets came in volleys. The steam-propelled slugs tore through the crumbled brick walls of the manse in Birmingham. Most families had fled the advancing battle lines, but Master had insisted that the Queen’s Men would stop the lunatics befor...
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First Impressions
Maryweather Hargrave and Suzetta Lynn Caldwell were the best of friends. They met at etiquette lessons at Madame Louroe’s mansion. Maryweather was born into a noble family. Manners were in her blood. Suzetta on the other hand was brought in by a ...
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Chips
A child shyly approaches the food counter at the latest tourist attraction she and her brothers had just run round. Quietly she asks the server for more chips, glancing nervously back at her family seated at a plastic table, surrounded by other familie...
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The Peddler Child
The doughy, white faces blur together so late in the day. It was astonishing that a tall, black man with dark grey eyes would stop in front of Hakim’s carpet shortly before the bazaar closed. “I hear you carry Father Blades. Is this so?R...