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A Writer’s Notebook VIII

It wasn’t an everyday event. Bodies weren’t. Altogether, not in this part of the country. You could be a serving officer for your whole life and not come into contact with a body. Maybe in London, Manchester, Birmingham, big cities. In those places you would have to deal with bodies, still not every day, but [...]



A Writer’s Notebook VII

The Gents consisted of a row of cubicles on one wall and a row of wash basins on the other. There was a mirror over the wash basins and shared access to liquid soap. Three urinals stood like soldiers on the wall opposite the entrance. The chemicals used to soften the stench of waste matter [...]



A Writer’s Notebook VI

My neighbour told me about her brother, David, who moved to Cardiff when he left University about ten years ago. He has been working there since then, something in the IT industry. He is unmarried and lives alone.
Although David is not particularly outgoing, he has friends, belongs to a walking club and teaches a couple [...]






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