Tag: england
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Loveable Alan Atcliffe by S.R. Mastrantone
Some people are so nice, it just seems too good to be true. Loveable Alan Atcliffe: that’s what they call him. Like Mrs. Montgomery, who waited for the breakdown people for nearly an hour in the dark of winter 2001, before Alan pulled over in his taxi and changed her tyre in just five minutes.…
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House Cleaning by Ian Creasey
It’s magical when kids help out around the house. There was a dead mouse in Mum’s bedroom. Simon gently pushed the door open and crept in. He smelled his mother’s perfume, almost overwhelmed by the odour of sweat and cigarettes and sour alcohol. A ray of morning sunlight shone through the curtains like a spotlight,…