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Browsing Archive: May, 2013

Short fiction #4

Posted by Suze Appleton on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, In : Short fiction 
April 1st - Who's a fool?

Liz turned over in bed and groaned. Dangling in front of her face was a severed head that looked like her boyfriend Damien. She turned back and buried her face in the pillow, determined to stay there until one o'clock at least. Every April first had been the same since she had moved in with him. Three years on and he still didn't get that she didn't find his jokes funny. Of course, it wasn't the only thing he didn't get about Liz.
She sighed as her thoughts returned to...

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Call Centre Carnage Chapter 3

Posted by Suze Appleton on Sunday, May 26, 2013, In : Serial novel 
CHAPTER THREE

The plot thickens

They continued to discuss the possible sponsors and Don volunteered that as wine was the obvious one he would approach all the wine shops in his area to try to get donations, hoping they would offer him samples to test. Krystal argued it was more obvious to get dairy farmers to sponsor it because it looked like a misshapen cow. Before they could come to blows, the door opened and Jo walked back into the room with Marilyn.
'Okay guys! Can I have your attention plea...

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Short Story #3

Posted by Suze Appleton on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, In : Short fiction 
My Sisters' Birthday

People often ask me what it's like having twins for sisters and I never know what to say to them. I've never known anything else, you see, because they were here when I arrived. In fact, the babies had mum and dad run ragged when mum got unexpectedly caught with me, so in a way we've been like been triplets really. Very often there's no difference between us, except that I don't have their special bond. 
It's true, they really can know each other's thoughts, but I got prett...

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Call Centre Carnage Chapter 2 (cont)

Posted by Suze Appleton on Sunday, May 19, 2013, In : Serial novel 
Continued. . .

When everyone, except Krystal, was seated at their desks, Jo handed out the DVDs to the front row and asked them to pass them back. A collective groan ran round the room as they recognised yet another batch of Jo's sales videos.
'Okay, enough,' urged Jo. 'You'll learn a lot from my videos and then you get to see what you can do. Are you ready for this? You're going to make your own sales video!'
The reactions rippled back in degrees from the squeals of the almost identical girls o...

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Short fiction #2

Posted by Suze Appleton on Friday, May 17, 2013, In : Short fiction 
 This story was inspired by words suggested by the excellent Cakeshortandsweet blog by Sarah Grace Logan in her online Wednesday short story challenge. Thanks Sarah.

The prompts were chloroform, banana split, crackers, stench, shoestring budget
 
Margo clutched the chloroform bottle under her coat as she bustled along the dark, dismal street, darker in places where the howling gale had blown out the gas lamps. The rain pelted at her face and stung with every drop. Her thin coat was soaked throug...

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Call Centre Carnage Chapter 2

Posted by Suze Appleton on Sunday, May 12, 2013, In : Serial novel 
The editing is coming slowly so only part of the chapter today, the rest will follow soon

CHAPTER TWO - The fun begins

Matt arrived at the building first on Friday, but then he was used to that. His need for being punctual outweighed any need for extra sleep, and just in case the bus let him down he always got the earlier bus. He grabbed a drink from the vending machine in the hallway and wandered through to the empty training room where the IT guy, was working at the back of one of the compute...

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Short fiction #1

Posted by Suze Appleton on Saturday, May 11, 2013, In : Short fiction 
Goat testicles - A story inspired by the news that Henry VIII ate goat testicles for virility.

They all looked down at the baby.
'Well, I never expected that,' said the midwife.
'I don't think that was quite the effect he wanted,' agreed the lady in waiting.
'And who's going to be the one to tell him? Not me,' chipped in the physician, cleaning his hands of the blood.
The baby lay on its back in the cradle, its features obscured by the large, well, snout on his face. There was no other word for it...

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Call Centre Carnage - Chapter 1

Posted by Suze Appleton on Sunday, May 5, 2013, In : Serial novel 
And so it begins

 

The trainees looked around at each other in disbelief. How could Adrienne be leaving just as they were learning what to do? After four days of training the only tutor they could trust to know the job was transferring to another department. The other trainers, Marilyn, Jo and Terence, either didn’t know or couldn’t care.

On the back row of desks Matt turned to Krystal sitting next to him and groaned.

'She's the only one that teaches us anything,' he said, 'what are w...


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