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The man who went out for two tins of baked beans

Type: Short stories

NOTE: This story is not mine, it is courtesy of my long time e-mail friend whom we will call “botned”.

It was Tuesday; on Tuesday Arthur took particular pleasure in doing the shopping because on that day he also prepared the evening meal for himself and for Agnes. They had been together now for over forty years; and since retiring four years previous, Arthur’s and Agnes’s lives had achieved a carefully designed order. Monday was bingo night at the Labour club, Tuesday they stayed in and watched TV from the six ‘clock news until one or both of them fell asleep. Wednesday they went again to the Labour club but didn’t play bingo (as Arthur said to Agnes, “You can have too much of a good thing, let’s have special nights for bingo”, Agnes agreed on that issue, they seldom if ever argued, did Arthur and Agnes). The week went on and things were done on a given day as they had been done since the couple figured out what they would do in a world full of so many things to do. Read more

Writer’s diary, Aug 9, 2011: Cycle 1 of Alice is done

Type: Writer's diary

Yay!!

I DID IT!

I finally got past part 10 and wrote down part 11 of Alice, which is the end of the first cycle. Now I’ll be moving on to part 12 and starting the second cycle.

I like how I don’t know where this is going or how it’s going to end. It makes writing the story almost as fun as reading someone else’s story. A bit weird, huh. Read more

Alice (part 11)

Type: Short stories

See the rest here: Alice series

“Hi Dad”, Alice said in a hoarse voice. Her hair was glued to her face with sweat and her lips looked pale.
“You shouldn’t talk right now, hun. Save your breath”
He sat down on her bed and took her hand. It was moist and cold and had a needle in it.
“You scared me to death, little girl”

Alice gave a faint smile. “It was incredible”, she said and closed her eyes.
“What do you mean?”
She shook her head.
“You can’t explain? Okay. That’s okay. It doesn’t really matter” He kissed her forehead. “I’m gonna go see when we can go home. I’ll be right back”
“NO!” she yelled and her cold hand grabbed him. For a second he thought he felt his bones bend. “Stay” she said in whisper but with eyes brighter than ever. John looked at her tiny fingers gripping on his hand so tight. God, what were they infusing her? Read more

Writer’s diary 29th of July, 2011: editing “Alice” part 10

Type: Writer's diary

Okay, I don’t know what you think you know about writing.

And I don’t know what I was thinking about writing – it is hard work! Harder than I thought!

I did another editing session on Alice, part 10. In case I have to go through that dreadful editing process yet again, please know that I wish to be cremated and not buried, and I am not big on flowers. Read more

Writer’s diary 24th of July, 2011. Editing Alice, part 9 and 10

Type: Writer's diary

I just spent and hour editing “Alice”.

I read through part 9 and got stuck on the same places as before. I changed the opening, which seemed awfully boring and un-intriguing. I re-arrange some of the other paragraphs and added and new “scene”, John’s thoughts about the race track. I love it. The ending also changed a bit.

Come to think of it, I guess that’s pretty much all I did with part 9. To me, it seemed like I had just re-written “Crime and Punishment”. Wow. Read more

20 July 2011. Starting the “Writer’s diary” posts

Type: Writer's diary

So I’m starting a Writer’s diary – a series of posts about, well, a writer’s life.

Today, as I was walking towards the workplace, I was worried about Good-reading.net and particularly about Alice of the Alice series. I started this site with the goal of posting twice or at least once a week, in order to have a couple of finished stories, a book, and world fame.

No, seriously – world fame. Read more

Alice (part 10)

Type: Short stories

See the rest here: Alice series

John had already ran halfway towards May’s classroom when the cab finally pulled out of the parking lot. Thank god they used swinging doors in the hall.

Mrs. Doe was holding a camera at May. All available staff had gathered around her, some of them using their cell phone cameras. No one was talking. They were too busy thinking about what was happening before them. Maybe later they’d try to figure it out, search for a logical explanation – but for now they were too busy absorbing it. There was this redhead whose hand (snowy white with freckles) was shaking really bad.

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