Archive for October, 2006
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
He hasn't hurt himself I trust?" Napolean inquired politely, raising his eyebrows and looking in the direction of where Paddy had been sitting.
Sophie was still giggling to herself, her little shoulders raised
around her ears as she looked down at Paddy who was flat on his back
amongst her Barbie dolls, half ...
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Sophie opened her door just a fraction and poked her head out to see
if there was a light shining from beneath her parents door. The hall
was dark and still, save for the moonlight that cast her own shadow
from her bedroom. As she listened, she could hear her Daddy's
occasional snore come ...
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
He's counting in the waves.
(One, two, three, four, five,six).
The seventh is always the biggest, he thinks. His feet are wet
with sea water, barefoot and glistening with sand.
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
I'd forgotten how lovely these sunny mornings of golf
were. I used to love the feel of crisp grass underfoot as the frost
tries to take hold but evaporates under the bright gaze of a September
sun, still dominant and holding court in the weeks before the clocks
go back. The way footprints of ...
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