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Submitted to Contest #337
Way BeyondMelda always wanted or expected more. Her parents worried about her interaction with other kids and their parents. They hsd thoght about another sibling for Melda, so that she would learn to share and act better ith others being the main goal.Nature did not bless Meg and Jack with anothe sibling for their daughter. IVF was expensive and Meg had lost babies due to miss carrying before Melda had come along. A rosy baby with rose hip lips Melda had been given everything possible. At thirty eight and forty Jack and Meg had accepted tha...
Submitted to Contest #309
A CHANCE ENCOUNTER. Cora was impulsive, thinking ahead occasionally her plans worked to her advantage. There had been times when she had been left disappointed. Today was going to be different with no job and time on her hands. She had met the man of her dreams by chance in the coffee bar. It was a nice coffee bar in the centre of town. Some where to go rather than stay indoors. The staff were pleasant and the place always looked clean and inviting. With fresh flowers in a small jug on each table. He had noticed her sitting in the corn...
Submitted to Contest #307
Treasure or Threat Lorrie had seen the book during her lunch hour from school, with the smart leather cover so shiny with the gold scrawls and serpents entwined in its leather-bound cover. Why would anyone want to abandon such a beautiful treasure in a charity shop. Lorrie became so engrossed in the book that she forgot what time of day it was. There was just plain paper in the book. When she touched the page medieval figures came alive on the page. Lorie could hear chanting from a bygone era. Lorie closed her eyes this could n...
Submitted to Contest #293
NO- WHERE MAN. Linda sat at the coffee table thinking about her life with Barry. Their time together had a been joke? The Beatles song all those years ago related to Barry the no-where man sitting in his own little world. She looked at the silver key in her hand soon she would not be needing it any more. In the 70s when they had first met Barry, had dark silky...
Submitted to Contest #292
The Colour Red. Leanne always enjoyed helping her mother in the kitchen as a child. She remembered helping mother to roll out the pastry with her small rolling pin. At four years of age it was all an adventure. Learning new skills her mother had always been patient with Leanne even when she ate the fruit before it went in the pies. A tear came to her eye there were so many happy memories. There...
Submitted to Contest #290
MISTY- MOMENTS. Erin heard a noise outside it was 7pm at night opening the door of her large detached bungalow, she saw the grey cat with br...
Submitted to Contest #288
Stormy Thoughts Mother sat watching the rain on the window pane, has it come down in torrents. The sky cast a grey shadow. The British weather could be so unpredictable? All the finery of the May Day parade had been ruined, all those eager young faces in dressed in bright costumes al...
Submitted to Contest #282
It just will notvgo away all those years on nearly half a centuary aho. How vivid ones mind is from babe to adult. I can relive it and picture as if it where yesterday.My first car green a little 11,00 car with the cream leather seats and clocks inside on the dash board. It was a sheer joy at twenty one to polish that car.Oh, why did it have to happen to me ? The event stays always in the back of my mind. Imagining the terror. Seeing the people six of them drunk in a four seater Cortina. Said "They were out celebrating their engagement. Wher...
Submitted to Contest #275
Patrick When Patrick had been out walking along the cliffs on their first visit to Cornwall there had been a warning from an old woman dressed in black, about six ravens circling a chalet. She had said, that it was a bad omen. The woman had then vanished into the grey curling mists. He had told Sandy about his experience and they had both l...
Submitted to Contest #272
JUST PASSING THROUGH. Leila Evans watched rain trickling down the window- pane, as a she lay in the hospice bed looking so frail. She looked at her arms she had become skin and bone the flesh-eating disease had taken its toll. Her once ...
Submitted to Contest #269
A CHANCE OF HAPPINESS. John Myers watched as the spider wove her web of silver upon the drain pipe opposite his flat. He was thinking about how his life had changed and it was all his own doing. John had never been one for superstition he thought about Robert the Bruce and how a spider had changed his life. He had to feel confident like the spider if the web broke the spider would always be ready to weave another one. ...
Submitted to Contest #268
ERNEST AND NESTA. Ernest and Nesta King were your ideal young couple they had vowed to love and cherish each other for the rest of their days. Ernest was a worried man during their ten years of living together as husband and wife, he had kept the truth from Nesta. His dear sweet angel, did not know that he was at fault and that was why she could not conceive. &...
Submitted to Contest #267
HEAVEN SENT. Kali was walking past Jessup’s store on Croydon High Street when she was approached by a sales assistant handing out free samples of perfume. “Go on take it” said the young sales assistant with the glowing smile. “It will do you good.” &n...
Submitted to Contest #261
I can always remember this incident that happend with my younger brother at the Gaumont Cinema . The event happend well over fifty years ago. The cinema is no more. Replaced by colour tv and internet.My yonger brother and I always looked forward to a outing to the cinema with mom and dad weekends. To see the bright colours and the screen light up in an array of coĺour made it all worth while.Usually we visted the cinema on a Saturday evening for the early evening show. After the film my younger brother found a brown leather wallet, behind hi...
Submitted to Contest #260
NOBODY LOVES BABS. Bab’s worked in a cake shop, her hair hung lank and greasy over her shoulders, the overall she wore was two sizes too small. Her black plimsolls had flour on them from the day before. Bab’s preferred to work in the bakery behind the shop where no one could see her. &...
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