Challenging Times
/… stepped through the double-doors and into the social club. He was puzzled for a moment by the darkness inside. He had arranged to play a few frames of pool with his brother in law and was due to…
By Chris Platt
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Different Circles
/...on as the new member of staff was being shown around the office. Beverley was the new operations manager. As soon as Joy met Beverley, she knew they were going to get along. There was ...
By Chris Platt
Read MoreThe Clean Slate
/... I was released from prison, I was determined that this time things would be different. I had been on the wrong side of the law since my teens, and been what the media would call a gangster, a villain, for most...
By Chris Platt
Read MoreDon’t Go Messin…
/A woman cures her.... .
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...early on with a deep-seated identity crises brought on by the general anxiety disorder gifted to her by a dysfunctional family, Janine Fetterman always felt more at ease...
By CraigE
Read MoreThe Better Man
/...followed her friends down the city-centre high street. It was such a laugh going shopping with her friends. While her husband Steve was glued to the football scores at home, she would go out enjoying herself with...
By Chris Platt
Read MoreA Strange Reunion
/…stared at the poster in the shop window with interest. His local mini-market and the chip-shop next door always had their windows full of leaflets and posters. Graham would…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreThe Exchange
/…two buses it took to get to work, she didn’t mind the fact that it took her over an hour for the journey, and had to spend time hanging around in Manchester’s Shude Hill bus…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreThis Dog's Life
/…eleven years old when all this started. Before the incident he was an average kid, into films and TV, and playing out with my friends. One afternoon in May, it was half-term and he was…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreThe Wedding
/…poured relentlessly through the night, drenching the countryside in a glistening sheen. The reflections of passing cars’ headlights flickered on the wet asphalt like a hundred…
By Silviya Rankova
Read MoreThe New Jersey Devil
/Set in the Depression Era…
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…was the era of the Great Depression in the United States, and all of the nation’s people started to suffer from it. Work was scarce…
By Ry Carey0
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