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How to interrogate your nemesis
My task today was to interrogate my grotty, rotter of a nemesis, the former Customer Service Supervisor. Our working relationship was always somewhat strained by my habit of throwing stationery at her, but now framing for murder I felt it had deteriorated further. I had looked forward to this duel…
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Book Review: The Fast Cuppa
The Fast Cuppa is a collection of flash fictions, written by Liverpool writer Richie Brown. There are seventy-six stories, each precisely twenty-five words in length. And the extreme brevity of each piece has the addictive effect of making the reader think ‘Oh just one more’. Before you know it, you’ve…
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High Society: The Homeless Man
Denny walked out of Century Members Club and swaggered quickly down Shaftsbury Avenue. In each hand was an item formerly belonging to someone else; in his left hand a golden pocket watch and in his right were keys to a Porsche. It had been a good week of swindling for…
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High Society: Denny Rogers
Century Members Club was nearly impossible to get into for a celebrity, let alone for an average person, but this sort of thing never stopped Denny Rogers. Sporting a fake thin moustache and casually twiddling a fancy golden pocket watch, he sat on the roof terrace reading ‘The Grifters’. Right…
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High Society: Ingrid
The coffee pot was boiling over. Aubrey had knocked a tall vase of flowers from the kitchen table, drenching the floor in filmy ripe-smelling plant water and was tearing around the house in wide-eyed terrified glee. Music was blaring, spilling the jubilant if grating sounds of Florence and the Machine…
