A Story In
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Possibly Stephen
The writer stared at the page, expecting inspiration to spring at him from the fibres of the old-style reporters’ notebook.
Words trickled...gushed...cascaded. He ripped the page out, rolled it into a tight ball and chucked. It bounced off the bin, thran as the incorporeal muse.
“What was wrong with that?” she asked, form flickering in the draught.
“It was in Latin,” he spat.
She giggled a bit. “Sorry, my mind wandered. I know, how about–?”
“Look, could you put on something less filmy. It’s distracting. Tired, not dead.”
“Tweeds okay?”
He nodded, and wrote Misery.
From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid
Ned
Ned woke with a sore head. The boys would be bailing hay, might have a spare half-one of whiskey for him. Still wearing yesterday's overalls he yanked on wellie boots and moseyed along the pot-hole filled coast lane up to the farms. Fred and Slap-head saw him weaving in and out of the irritated cows. Sneakily Fred poured a laxative into his moonshine. Great craic!
After a few good slugs of the bottle Ned hobbled quickly through the gate back to his stone cottage. Aggie was furious. He didn't make it to the outhouse. Her mother's floral sofa was ruined.
From Guest Contributor Valkyrie Kerry Kelly
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