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Jon Mantle

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After the flood

There’s water all over the kitchen floor, it’s seeping into the floorboards, and they’ll probably warp. Chris will be annoyed because he said they should get tiles. Chloe’s eating her cereal with her hand, milk is trickling through her fingers down her face, into her hair and onto her school cardigan. One of the more conscientious mothers would probably wash and change their daughter in circumstances like these but Jess thinks that a quick wipe down with a damp cloth will probably do. She hates the conscientious mums – their children in neat...

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Apres le deluge, moi.

Weekly Contest #363

If he were here, the thunder and lightning would indicate to Brett that the rapture was going to happen any second. She has told him that she and Bromley (he chose the name and his only excuse is that he’s an unrepentant American) were at a mothers’ and babies’ group.This is what a stern critic would call a lie.Three hours ago, she dropped the boy at Lindsey’s house and told her that she had a non-specific emergency to attend to. She promised she would be back before four, Lindsey rolled her eyes but reluctantly agreed. It is now quarter to ...

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Eric and Peter

Weekly Contest #361

Dear Eric Sorry for approaching you out of the blue, especially as I’m about to ask a small but, hopefully not unpleasant, favour. My name’s Andrew Orton and my dad is Peter Orton. I think you were both history students together at Jesus college. He’s got vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s and there are certain memories that seem to have stuck with him particularly strongly and stories which recur when he talks about his youth. One of these stories concerns hitch hiking around Europe in the early 60s and I think that for at least part of the...

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