Archive for October, 2006
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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I had awoken with a jerk. I was bolt upright in my bed before I realised it had been a dream. My bare back glistened in sweat, cooling with the light breeze than came in from the open window behind me. Even as I wiped the sweat from my clammy ...
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Later, Jessie and I drink frothy cappuccinos in the nearby coffee shop, both absorbed in our latest purchases from the St Vincent De Paul charity book store. I scan the back of my novel, as Jessica reads the first few paragraphs of her latest prison diary book. She has a ...
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Chapter One
Sophies' house nestled quietly at the edge of the forest that curled past the small town of Idlesdown, that was hardly a big enough town to be called a town. One main street rose in an arc from the narrow stone bridge outside her gate, passed ...
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
I busy myself with my half built rockery in the garden for the rest of the evening, making use of the bright summer dusk. By ten o'clock, with the sun losing it's heat and finally disappearing behind the slates of my roof, I sit back on a the sleepers proping ...
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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It was still dark when Sophie awoke. She was still lying in the same position she had drifted of in while her daddy had been reading to her, his last sentence still hanging in her ears. She opened her eyes to see he had gone, and her book lay closed ...
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