Category: 2010

LIZ ELSON

Egg on his Face We had a new guy on the night shift last week. He was real quiet, hardly said a word to anyone. Just smiled and nodded and said ‘yeah’ or ‘no’ like. It wasn’t like he was stupid. He cottoned on to the work quick as. Me and Joe reckoned he was …

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HOLLY EDGECOMBE

Excerpt from On the Road to a Miracle Mum and Jill Sullivan, the occupational therapist from CCS, had started a Conductive Education group which I attended three times a week. Most of the others were younger than me, but we all worked together and it helped, being with a group of other kids who were …

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TESSA CASTREE

Double Chocolate The ice cream Dr Roberts bought Brian was delicious, double chocolate with nuts. He ate it slowly; lately there hadn’t been enough ice cream in his life. The doctor was enjoying his, too, but he had to drive at the same time. Brian looked out the car window at the lovely homes with …

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