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Drip – Chapter 4
Flash. Flash. Flash. Alice balanced, mid splits, one foot on the boiler casing and the other on a wooden box filled with skiwear. Her right arm was reaching up, stretching to the vent, frigid thumb flicking the torchlight on and off and on and off in the feeblest of hopes…
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Drip – Chapter 3
The tears that streamed from her eyes mixed with the blood seeping from her forehead until it dripped muddy flowers into the river by her feet. Alice sat sobbing in the dark on the floor of her upper landing, face on knees and hands over eyes. The metal lamp rested…
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Drip – Chapter 2
Alice slammed her clenched fists against the glass in sweeping overhead arcs, curves of water forming over her head as her hands scooped up the now waist-high water. She screamed, she swore. It didn’t help. The windows had been expensive upgrades, sold with the promise that the double glazing would…
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Drip – Chapter 1
Alice’s last dream was of oceans. Turning and flowing eternally beneath her, she flew with outstretched arms over the furrowed waves until they blurred together as one blue grey stipple under an eternal blue sky. After ten years, twenty, a millennium, she arched downwards and pummelled deep, past fish and…
Simon Best 