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Buttermilk Pancakes

I stood up under the cherry tree and walked barefoot towards the honey-coloured house. As I looked up it was as if the clouds had flattened in the sky and dropped like giant buttermilk pancakes on the ground all around me.

La Neige, La Neige

The snow had been falling for days now; the road outside Michael’s cottage was covered in ice disguised by a meringue-like snow. The weather seemed to have taken on an ancient wildness about it that year.

Short stories include: The Webmasters Wife, The Christmas Message, The Partner, The Old Girls Trip To The House of Lords, What Was Left - these are just five of the titles you will receive out of your fifty-two. Click here to read extracts of the stories.

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The Webmaster’s Wife

"Anna sat opposite to her husband Mark in the bookshop’s cafe. It felt to her that he was slipping away like a golden magical ball with a momentum all of its own slowly disappearing over green rolling hills silently without drama but definitely, as if by magic vanishing."

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Buttermilk Pancakes

"Take your tears somewhere else Josie. You could electrocute herself around here – water and electricity just don’t mix. You used to be a scientist so you should know that. I was a chocolatier Anna. “Please don’t say that” “But its true Anna, its time to start listening to the truth, maybe then you will start getting better”.

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The Partner

"Mark turned the wheel of the car and drove onto the broad drive of a gothic style house that had been converted into a restaurant and hotel. 'This is one of my favourite eating-places”; He said without looking at her - yet during the four months that she had known him he had never mentioned the place before."

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I Saw This On My Way To Work What Did You See Today?

• Send in an image that you saw on your travels today, it can be unusual, interesting happy or sad just not boring. Each week I will select the best ones for the site.
  I found this discarded note on the floor in a street in Edgbaston - who is Harry what does it mean – is it concerning a trivial issue or does it refer to something much more important? The mystery of not knowing struck me.  The note was found on a leafy
  Street with old white houses on that once belonged to the merchants of Birmingham.

• Think of this web site when you are on your journey to work of just out and about on your daily routine and if you see something unusual, strange, beautiful or just an image that you want to share then send it to me.

• Send your contributions to me by e-mail to: contact@lucindarush.com

How Sad Is That?

• Frank McGarahan murdered after he shouted to a gang to stop attacking a lone homeless person.
• Bridge End County Wales twenty suicides in twenty months 12.09.08
• Barrister shot dead by the police - save him, turn the clock back.

How Happy Is That?

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Sophie J Rush

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