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Walter

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Walter patted his top pocket, his flat fingers finding the cylinders of the pens that poked out above. He patted his two jacket pockets – pat (left) handkerchief, pat (right) wallet folded flat with one five pound note in it, no more no less. Next the left upper quadrant of his jacket where his inside pocket would bear the square ridged outline of his bus pass. But there was nothing. He stopped, hand in mid-air while the anomaly sank in.He began again. Top pocket. Jacket pockets. Inside pocket. Still no bus pass. He started on his trouser pockets even though … Continue reading Walter

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‘Lovely Girls’

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

From the re-cycler ; ‘Lovely Girls’ is a story about the life of a young woman in an institution for people with learning disabilities. Amy watches the door; that grimy, finger-stained, gobbed-on portal to fleeting respite from the chronic stink that makes her eyes water. First published by The Other Room Journal, it moved to Scribd when TORJ ceased operating. 1999 words.   Continue reading ‘Lovely Girls’

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Indie Authors Linda MacDonald & Cathryn Grant

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I am not really a reviewer so I am stopping short of calling this a book review – and in any case, it concerns five books at least so we’d be here all day. Instead, I’m going to just talk about two indie authors – one American, the other British – both of whom write about relationships in a way that takes the reader right inside the characters, following every introspective argument, uncertainty, dilemma, and impactful resolution. Beyond that, they are chalk and cheese. Cathryn Grant writes suburban noir and introduces me to people with whom I have nothing in … Continue reading Indie Authors Linda MacDonald & Cathryn Grant

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