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The Flotsam Café

S J Butler

She came to the sea because she had nowhere else to go. She packed one bag and walked out of the door and she just kept on going. She bought a ticket as far …

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Muslims eat Meat

N S R Khan

The rule had always been “Eat first, complain later”.

Eileen’s cooking was like good intentions that paved the way to Hell’s Kitchen. Her kitchen. She was a diabolical cook. Not “diabolical”, as in …

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Tasteless

Stuart Snelson

In retrospect, he was surprised that it had taken her so long to leave, that she hadn’t packed the car with bare essentials, scuttled the children into the back seat and driven off years ago.

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Dinner Date

K. L. Gillespie

Their eyes meet across an overcrowded bus on a rainy October night.

Heather is in her late twenties, strawberry blonde hair, chocolate brown eyes and milky, smooth skin.

Samuel is a couple of years older, …

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