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Submitted to Contest #331
CW: Contains themes and/or references to murder and distress At exactly 6.58am his darling wife Sandra places a steaming mug of black coffee onto their teal set of matching coasters.At 7.05am his wife and the boys flee to school in the family's Mitsubishi Outlander while Edward soaks in the glorious twenty minutes of serene silence before leaving himself.He rides the tube until 8am with a hand tucked into his tweed jacket and the other wrapped around the hanging rail, it’s always busy.He passes the stall next to the office building at 8.15am...
Submitted to Contest #330
Mum you can’t not have a sixtieth birthday party. I wished to be anywhere but in this room, where loud cheers erupt as I flush the candles of their existing flame. The room was full of over-exaggerated fancy dress, stupid frilly frocks that existed to show off a housewife’s figure. Narrow bell pants danced from side to side, a misrepresentation of the flamboyant seventies. I wanted to scowl at the inaccuracy.The party is wholly my eldest daughter's idea, and taste.Even the medallion orange of my three tiered cake is a horrid, abject shade. M...
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