The witch was
the witch
was
the witch
was the witch
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Notes:
1. Written on July 28th, 2023
2. I think
3. (I forgot to date it at the time)
Tales From The Town
Tales From The Town #130: The Rudest Word In The Entire World (Part 1)
“This game is rubbish!” Claire said, kicking the board up in the air and scattering toy cars everywhere. “It’s complete CRAP!”
“Claire!” Tina and Ethel exclaimed. “You can’t say that!”
“I can!” Claire said. “And I did!”
“But it’s…. it’s rude!”
“Really rude!”
“I don’t care!” Claire said. “And you shouldn’t either!”
“But we do!”
“What if Daniel hears!”
“You know how upset he gets about rude words!”
“And rude people!”
“And rudeness in general.”
“Well, maybe Daniel should just shut up!” Claire said.
Daniel came running into the room, arms outstretched, pretending to be an aeroplane. Then he flew back out of the room and up the stairs to play with the dolls, who didn’t swear at all, not even when talking about the witch.
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Notes:
1. Written on July 28th, 2023
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Apples rotting beneath the trees. Teardrop jewelled spider’s webs on the washing line. And in the distance ships lost in the fog out at sea.
Autumn was here, and not even Claire declaring that there’s no such thing as ghost ships could spoil Agnes’s mood.
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Notes:
1. Written on July 27th and August 26th, 2023
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Frozen in place at the end of the board, too scared to jump, too embarrassed to turn back.
In years to come it would feel like this moment encompassed two thirds of Tina’s childhood rather than approximately forty five seconds one Saturday afternoon when she was eight.
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Notes:
1. Written on July 7th, 2023
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It was the greatest story ever told. Love, death, heroism, villainy, selflessness, satisfaction. Even a joke now and then, and some dancing too. Everything was up there on the screen, depths and layers you could stare into and see whatever it was you wanted to, needed to, hoped to, dared to, like a magic mirror, or a wishing pool, or an old album full of photos redolent of things greater than were ever really true at the time.
The projector caught fire half an hour in and no one ever saw the end.
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Notes:
1. Written on July 5th, 2023
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