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A Dickens of a Tale

Posted: 19th February 2012 by Mathew Bridle in Homework, Short Stories
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Recently in the group, we decided to write a collaborative story. Phil Hollis, our beloved secretary, wrote the first chapter which was then be taken up by three separate groups to write their own chapters. The results, as expected, were very different. Only two conditions were applied: 1. No introducing anything new 2. Only one [...]

Scarlet and Tan

Posted: 26th September 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Homework, Mathew's Blog, Member's Blogs, Short Stories
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We heard them before we saw them. Drums banging, boots crunching. Everyone in the village was out in the square slowly forming into a half moon in front of the soldiers as they stomped their shining black boots in time with the drums. Then there was silence.  One soldier came forward, his scarlet jacket a [...]

Fernando

Posted: 12th September 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Homework, Mathew's Blog, Member's Blogs, Short Stories
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“Can you hear the drums,” the General yanked the man’s head up so that he could look into the bloodied and bruised eyes, “Fernando?” he jerked his head back down again Fernando felt nothing. “They are counting down the remainder of your life,” the General spat in Fernando’s face, the spittle mingling with blood from [...]

The Royal Garden

Posted: 20th May 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Homework, Mathew's Blog
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My submission for the May 2011 meeting. The homework was to describe a walk somewhere to an imaginary friend. Passing through the glittering marble white gates beneath hanging ivy whose veins shine with light into the gardens where the tortoiseshell pathway ends and the soft mossy grasses begin. I find myself met with the impossible site of the [...]