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Pipe Dream (bp coyle)

October 16, 2019 coylewriter 2 Comments

‘One day Daddy,’ my daughter Rose says as she washes up after dinner. ‘One day everything will be so much…

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Posted in: Family

The Fire (Story by Risa Peris)

October 15, 2019 periswriter

The hay and crops were on fire, but I turned my back on the haunting flames. Men were flinging buckets…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships, Romance
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Stray (bp coyle)

October 14, 2019 coylewriter

‘Everything was easy for you because you were the youngest. I was the one who ended up with all of…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family
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:( (bp coyle)

October 12, 2019 coylewriter

What happened? Honestly, I don’t know where to begin. After the crash, with Bill on life support and us having…

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Posted in: Relationships

The Moon and The Fish (Story by Risa Peris)

October 11, 2019 periswriter

He would encircle me in his arms and heft me up near shoulders. “The moon,” I would yell. It seemed…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction
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He’s The One For Me (bp coyle)

October 10, 2019 coylewriter

I met that nice man from next door this evening, we usually end up putting out our bins at the…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships

Cold (Story by Risa Peris)

October 9, 2019 periswriter

On a cold day, they stuck him in a cold coffin in the cold ground with the cold birds fluttering…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction, Parenting
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Jack (bp coyle)

October 8, 2019 coylewriter

The man looks frantic, on the point of tears. ‘Sorry to bother you,’ he begins. ‘Did anyone hand in a…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction

Is This Irony? (Story by Risa Peris)

October 7, 2019 periswriter

I dread teaching irony. My students were always confused and I was constantly trying to come up with a unique…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting, Relationships
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Farmland (bp coyle)

October 6, 2019 coylewriter

‘This used to all be farmland when I was a boy,’ I inform my youngest girl. ‘Really?’ she asks in…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family

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