short stories
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‘Help me, please!’
When 5 pm hit, I could feel the sweat on my back and the heat radiating off my body as I walked into the house. I’d completed a strenuous third lap out of four of my day’s shift, an hour walk from home and back. After all these weeks since the start of summer, I’m…
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The One You Lay Next To
Have you ever breathed in fog? Like walked right into the thick of it and sucked it in, whether by mistake or on purpose. Hits the throat right? And not in the most refreshing way when you’re already experiencing cold symptoms. ‘This is going to be a fun walk’ I thought to myself drawing the…
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The Journey
It was on a train journey back to work, staring out the window, that I came to accept happiness was something I did not quite know. Although the views of the country fields and the sheep in the distance made me smile, happiness was a feeling that seemed foreign, at least in my soul.
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My Tunisian sad story
I’ve recently revisited some photographs from my past travels and felt to write a fiction piece based on an actual event that took place a week after I left Sousse. I evidently, am a fortunate one to have left when I did and my heart still goes out to the lives lost & their relatives. My…
