Category: Stories
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Airplane 3: Popped in Flight
It would end with a dull pop. Almost certainly followed by the staccato sound of five pops one after another. And that would be the end of me. Unless they used a taser. In truth, my fate would depend on the cabin pressure. Or the altitude. Or the crew’s response. Or the air marshall’s. Maybe,…
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Mr and Mrs Catface
Mary. Next time don’t ask for a Catface. Because that’s what made John smile. At you. So, I asked him, “Catface for you too? And John’s little Laura nods. She says, “A Kitty for me.” Meaning I sat him, you, and Laura together. That’s when it happened. You introduced yourselves. Next you’re both smiling at…
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Disasters’R’Us
“You don’t know do you?” My new workmate Jocelyn had turned pale. I’d just told her about my weekend trip. I shook my head. “A tsunami alert has been issued for Cairns,” she said. “What the…” I’d wasted my morning attending orientation courses, meeting managers, stakeholders, etc, the usual first day shenanigans. “Gotta make a phone…
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The Cat that got the Ice Cream
“They,” the cat delivery girl said. “Put. Her. Next. To. Two Crates of Ice Cream.” She was crying. And now Daddy looked sad. Then I thought that’s why Daddy brought me along. Because I could help Fluffy. Fluffy would be scared and cold. Because Fluffy would be wishing she was curled up in my…
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The Light Click
We have to work together, I said. Of course, she shrugged her shoulders. And added the eye roll. We have to start with what’s in front of us, I said. Yeah whatever, she said. And sighed. I shrugged my shoulders back towards her. Emphatically. Well? I said, You signed us up for this? What do you want…
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You Said You’re Sorry
“Say you’re sorry,” Julie said. Ally, hands on hips, leaned closer: the better to shake her curls in her sister’s face. Julie blew the curls away with a raspberry. “Say it, say, it, say it,” she persisted. Ally stepped back. “Well. I’m. Sorry,” she said. “That’s not the way to apologise,” her Dad began. But…
