Tales From The Town #120: Ice Cream Competition

“Two scoops?!” Tina said, wide eyed with awe. “I’ve never had two scoops before.”

“Mine’s got two scoops too,” said Daniel. “In different flavours!”

“Mine has two scoops and a flake!” said Ethel. “I don’t know what’s gotten into dad but I like it.”

“I think maybe he’s just sad,” said Tina. “He’s not been the same since the mermaid ran off with that walrus last year.”

There was a moment of silence as they contemplated their father, as he counted out his sand and seaweed covered coins at the ice cream counter.

“Yeah, well mine has THREE scoops!” Claire shouted, quickly getting back to what was important. “And I’ve got two of them!” She pulled her arm out from behind her back with a flourish a magician would have been proud of. “You’ll never beat that!”

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Notes:

1. Written on May 26th, 2023

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Tales From The Town: A Summer Book

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Notes:

1. Written between the 5th and the 11th of August, 2022
2. Although the cover was drawn on the of August, 2022
3. And also the back cover.
4. And also I suppose technically The Cat In Summer was written whenever The Cat In Winter was written.
5. Which was last summer instead of this summer, it appears.
6. Also it’s too hot to transcribe these today so I hope you can read them all.
7. I assure you the crossed out word at the end of Flags Of Forgotten Nations is not rude.
8. At all.
9. Unless you consider C&A rude
10. It’s quite rude I suppose.

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Tales From The Town #64: In The Sun In The Summer

1. Daniel used the hose to make rainbows in the sun.

2. “They’re not real rainbows,” said Claire.

3. “You’re a real rainbow,” said Ethel.

4. “Am not,” Claire said.

5. “Am,” said Ethel.

6. Tina used the hose to make rainbows in the sun.

7. Repeat to fade.

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Notes:

1. Written on June 28th, 2022

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Tales From The Town #47: Winter

A Winter’s Day

“It’s cold,” said Tina.

“It’s really cold,” said Claire.

“It’s too cold,” said Ethel.

Daniel’s teeth chattered and his face went blue.

“I told you all it wasn’t the weather for ice cream,” Agnes said with a sigh, as she paid the ice cream van driver and ushered the children back inside.

A Winter’s Night

Sixteen hours of dark, and all of it silent. Softly floating snow making rainbows as it falls, the colour of moonlight, the colour of streetlights, the colour of headlights, the colour of fairy lights put up for Christmas and never taken down.

Three months later and they still don’t look out of place. Winter deadens time like snow swallows sound. Purgatorial beauty.

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Notes:

1. Written on June 11th, 2021
2. A sequel to Tales From The Town #15: Summer

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the rains of summer

the grass grows long
beneath the
rains of summer

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Notes:

1. Written on July 30th, 2021

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