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No Picnic, part one
So I went to Jessica’s for tea, just like her mother had asked! Once there I changed back to gym kit, because even by late afternoon it was still too hot a day for school uniform. Jessica’s little cousin Kyle and the friend from his school who he’d brought to tea had both done the same, so we sat about the garden in our shorts and tees a bit, enjoying the sun. Kyle looked like Jessica, only he had fair hair and freckles. Until now I’d only ever seen him in his school uniform, which seemed to make him fidget even more than Jessica did in hers. His friend meanwhile had green eyes and dark brown hair. It was too hot to start chucking a ball round, for which I was secretly grateful. The company of other boys was more fun for me when we didn’t have to do that!
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
No Picnic, part two
Pettishly, I reached for a pink-iced cake. Whip! Holly snatched the last one and smirked at me. Scowling and red-faced, I reached for one with raisins instead but Jessica smartly caught that one too. Her giggles made my face burn all the more. I was getting so sick of these girls!
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
The Junior Tournament
Two Saturdays in. There was one week remaining until my birthday, and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to last it out. Nor did I think I’d last my mixed one-on-one match in the junior tournament Jenny had been thoughtful enough to enter me into.
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
Night on a Bare Conurbation, Chapter Five
Blonghé Bliggs and his news-crew arrived in time to film the huge hole in the nightclub wall while it was still giving off smoke, and their shots of the surrounding devastation would look great once studio had added some graphics to chart Schiss-Zazz’s course through the concrete city-blocks. On top of that, waiting for them right there at the site was none other than Mini-Flash 4-H-N herself. Bliggs could scarcely credit his good fortune. He’d been doing this job long enough to know it wasn’t every evening a chance-interview with one the more famous vertebrates tumbled right into your tentacles.
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
Avion Symphony, Chapter Two
The explosion scorched Villanelle’s fair hair out of existence, shredding her school uniform and knickers then blowing to fragments the flesh beneath. Smoke cleared to reveal a robot which 4-H-N this time did know. It would indeed have been difficult for her to forget, but as it had also tried to annihilate Chester that probably went double for him. Good thing he was here, or 4-H-N would never have been able to picture the look on her own face.
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
Avion Symphony, Chapter Six
It was an August night that resonated magic. If they didn’t make them like that anymore, at least 4-H-N remembered them. For her they were bound up with friends and fun, evenings at the takeaway when you could eat as much as you pleased, and of course, songs playing on the video-walls such as this very one. Villanelle was in her human guise, and Chester was still a boy. Each held in both hands one end of the map, as side-by-side they studied it together.
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
Avion Symphony, Chapter One
It wasn’t the first time 4-H-N had paid a call on Kitty. In fact, it was getting to be a habit. For this, 4-H-N earnestly believed her nightie was responsible. The short pink one with the shoulder-straps, in which no girl could reasonably expect her knickers or armpits to stay secret long, and which for all these reasons closely resembled 4-H-N’s old Avion Girls Task Force costume. That was clearly triggering all the right psychological cues, because when 4-H-N wore it her weary head barely touched the pillow before she was there. Back in Kitty’s small college bedroom with its book-lined shelves and a bunk to save on floorspace, plus a wash-basin and mirror tucked away in one corner, the window open on a night-time campus of Spanish colonial architecture and a darkened strip of Californian beach.
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
