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Some people just don't like reading instructions. Or being given them it would seem.
I hadn't.
So she fancied a quiet drink. Right now. Of course this meant she'd have to visit the nearest, and possibly least welcoming pub to her home. She could have had a quiet drink at home. But, this inevitably led to many distractions, the least being her mobile, the most being...well it was mainly her mobile actually.
Her face however, was a familiar one in the pub and which meant people knew when she was to be left well alone. She simply had a way about her she did. But the lads in the corner didn't know this did they? No they didn't.
You'd have thought the message posted behind the bar was warning enough. Oh But no.
Even a quiet word, followed by a series of worried glances from the bar man were ignored.
The lads evening ended abruptly with a last cold drink and a chaser of warm blood.
The Right Shadows (2025)
Steve Coel
Notes -
Way back when...I wrote a whole heap of experimental London short fictions...exercises mainly, printed up and placed in the alternative sections of various outlets in the South East...I was beginning to learn what I liked to write about and perhaps as importantly, what I could do and what I couldn't...Apples and Pears was probably, no pun intended...the pick of the bunch...
Steve Coel, 2025
