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Posts tagged 'fairy'

Friday Flash Fiction: The Golden Ball Trick

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Jim blew into his cupped hands and flexed his booted feet. The March night was brutally cold. It had been over an hour since the parents had switched off their bedroom light, and there was no sign of activity in the farmhouse. Time to move. The lock on the back door was easy to pick, [...]

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Friday Flash Fiction: The Second One

Friday, February 12th, 2010

This Friday Flash is a sequel to The First One. — Standing in the newsagents in King’s Cross station with greasy hair, a blinding headache and mismatched shoes, Cathy wondered if that little thorn of a fairy had stolen some of her luck to funnel it to her ex. She had woken to a broken [...]

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Friday Flash: The First One

Friday, February 5th, 2010

This was inspired by a prompt sent into my short story club by the sparkling Iapetus999 some time ago. It just needed to find the right home… — Cathy had known something was wrong when her boyfriend rolled the twelfth ‘seven’ in a row. Now he was in the cold casino car park, lip spilt [...]

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