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The Girl Who’d Heard it All
It’s funny, that the source of our most massive guilt should almost always have such innocent origins. My first experience with guilt happened when I was five. I was looking at the limited sweet...
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A Different Kind of Magic
How old were we when we first found it? That place we called ‘our castle’? Five… maybe six? Long enough ago that new strip malls, parking lots and office buildings have since narrowed that glorious...
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Ice Angel
The lake road that lead back from Waterford was potholed, poorly lit and utterly unpopulated. Tom hated it. It was, by far, the worst part of the delivery route he had been driving three times a week...
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I Love Russia in the Springtime
Winston Churchill once described Russia as ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.’ Even though this description might have been aimed almost exclusively at the country’s foreign policies at...
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Secret Ingredients
Secret Ingredients Fresh cranberries dot the white tablecloth like glossy drops of Hollywood-red nail varnish. Fluffy biscuits are piled high next to a boat of thick, rich gravy. A pyramid of emerald...
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Memories through a Window
Knife. Rope. Car. Water. What? Harriet opened her eyes. The world sped past her through the thick, dirty glass of a rear window. She was on the backseat of a car, lying down, her face plastered to the...
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The Scientists in the States
“The first one was in Tennessee, which is in the States. Everything starts in the States, it’s like we live eight years in the past. It’s always the guys in the big cities who get stuff first, like new...
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Sunday Roast
Some people say you shouldn’t salt the meat before you cook it, that it dries it out, but I’ve always done it this way. I roll the roast in a herb, rock salt and ground black and white pepper crust....
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Gateway Drug
Terry and Samantha were in love. They knew they were in love because they had been dating for nearly a year, loved all the same music and movies, had all the same friends and almost never fought. Terry...
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