nothing in the rulebook
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Category: Short Fiction
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A preview of Costanza Casati’s debut novel ‘The President Show’.
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On November 1st 2020, Rushmoor Writers turned seventy years old. It’s the second-oldest writers’ group in the UK, after the Authors’ Club, which was founded in 1891. To celebrate this milestone, the writers group has published an anthology of new writing, The Thing About Seventy. The anthology features tales of love, loss, lockdown, dragons, abandoned houses, dead…
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A short story about self-esteem, sugar paper and buying butter online.
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Erotic fiction doesn’t get more forensic than this; as Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham get on top of the detail (and each other)…
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A personal essay by Anna Maria Colivicchi
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She arrived in Westminster for work experience with Boris Johnson, but she could never have imagined where she’d end up with Keir Starmer…
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The email comes with an attachment that might, probably will, ruin her life forever. You. Asked. For. It. She repeats each word carefully, her face bright in the pale blue glow of her laptop screen. She’s sure she knows what the attachment is but she’d rather die than open it. The email has no subject.…
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The first time Dan told me he would kill himself, he was at the top of a flight of stairs, looking down at me…
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An elephant is easily capable of killing a human…
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The ride to Philadelphia would take approximately three and a half hours. Nina rented the car for two weeks, to be on the safe side. Her mother had a way of dragging these things out; the funeral wouldn’t last only a few days. “Seeing as you’re here,” her mother would say. “You might as well…
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