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Category: Childhood

Childhood

The Begonias

‘Mum, can we go now?’ Samuel groaned, tugging his mum’s Gillet as she perused a selection of begonias. ‘Almost, darling.’ She read a tag. Samuel

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Childhood

Freeze Frame

Change comes to us all. A tight-knit family, torn by disagreement. A pandemic that alters the very idea of human interaction. Change came to me.

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Childhood

Sailing Sundays

Every Sunday afternoon, as a young boy, Father would take me out to the hills where we would set our boats to sail on the

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Childhood

Egg and Spoon Race

We were sitting on a metal spoon like an egg, unsteady, any sudden movement about to finish us off. We weren’t going to reach the

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Childhood

A Drop of Kindness

I heard the shouting through my bedroom wall one night. It was a woman’s voice. She sounded like how my mum did when my older

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Childhood

Goodbye, Friend

My brother, George, never had many friends. It wasn’t that he was shy, he was just direct, a straight-talker, and people didn’t like that. He

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