Tag: Microfiction
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Behind closed doors
This was not what I’d expected when the call came in, double checking with dispatch that I’d been given the right address. “I think there’s been a mistake. Could you re check the address please?” This surely was the wrong place. I parked the car in front of the large period home, drawing the ire…
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Out of the blue
My phone pinged as a message came through. Things had been great this past year as our relationship continued to blossom. Jane was everything I had ever hoped for, the seemingly perfect match. We met through mutual friends and the connection was instant and electric. Enamoured by her vivacious personality and infectious smile, I loved…
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Tapestry of life
It was a grand, but solemn occasion. People came from all parts of the town donning their mourning clothes, an outward expression of their inner grief. The bell in the little church on the hill tolled over the valley, a signal to all that the matriarch of this community had passed into the afterlife. Grace…
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The Jackaroo
The vast expanses of the outback station rolled out as far as the eye can see. Ripples of heat refracted as the sun scorched this barren red land. Rock formations rose like giant monuments, formed in the Dreaming, out of the parched and cracked earth. The ragged sheep roamed the outback station, searching for a…
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Colour of the Fall
Festive boughs of claret reds, sweltering oranges and honeycomb yellows lighten the darkening days as winter approaches. Air crisp and sharp as the autumn winds whistle through the sparse canopies above. Leaves dance elegantly as they descend earthward, making their final journey to the ground below. A carpet of earthy hues; a kaleidoscope of colour…
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My home
I stand and gaze in wonder, dwarfed by the giant Eucalypts in this ancient temperate forest. These pillars standing proudly as they have done for eons, like the columns of the parthenon, reaching earnestly for the heavens. Songs of lorikeets and rosellas, a magnificent and lyrical choral ode filling the air. Creeks distantly babbling and…
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Frayed
Another night of being together, but feeling world’s apart. The veracity of their relationship of late was being tested at every turn. They’d been together for what seemed like forever; grown old together, laughed together and had a family together. Now things have irrevocably changed. The children have grown and have moved on with their…
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Drifting
He sits bolt upright in bed. Eyes as wide as dinner plates. Body rigid and gasping for air as if he was drowning. The room was familiar, but strange at the same time. His eyes acclimatise and breathing slows. This was the home he and his wife had built, but his mind drifted elsewhere. His…
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Carefree Days
It took every ounce of energy to find any motivation. Every day, the same monotonous drudgery. Crowded platforms and stifling trains. Soulless offices with endless rows of pods. Feigning interest in the seemingly endless tedium of life is such an artificial existence. Surely there is more to it than this. Wistfully I gaze at the…
Roads less travelled 