The following stories were submitted to our sister website, toowrite.com. They were written by people from Aberdeen or are about Aberdeen itself.
Dobbin, Trixie and the Fiddle Backed Horse
Author:
Christina Gibson
of Aberdeen
The vet put the horse down, ending it's pain and misery, and earning him a fat fee for a night call.
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A Street in Luneburg
Author:
Rev Douglas Lister
of Aberdeen
On Christmas Eve 1995, a crisp cold morning, I received one of the best Christmas cards I had ever known. It was from Helmut.
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Animal Capers
Author:
Frances Fraser
of Aberdeen
There was more cat and dog food, bird seeds and straw in my kitchen than there was human food. My mother always threatened not to come back until I had got rid of all the ''Rabble'' as she called my little lodgers.
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Darkness
Author:
Ariane Nicklaus
of Aberdeen
Fear took hold of me. Life seemed like a wild labyrinth with no ending and no resolution. Where could he be? Something must have happened otherwise he would have been there to pick me up from the beach.
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The Tak A' Was There To Tak A'
Author:
Bob Gibb
of Aberdeen
Such was the aura of the all-powerful authority that surrounded this man that bairns went in fear of him even when they had done no wrong. I well remember a street full of kids, playing happily during a school lunchtime, clearing like magic when the cry went up: "It's the Tak a'!"
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Dogs
Author:
Bob Gibb
of Aberdeen
Ok, so deaf people can be communicated with through the recognised sign language. But a dog? The answer, we found, was to develop our own man-dog sign language. It really worked. Noddy very quickly learned our signs for "sit", "walk"-on" and "fetch". One big problem - he insisted on chasing cars and motorbikes.
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Ghosts
Author:
Bob Gibb
of Aberdeen
Da was a fish-market porter and started work around 3am. He told us it was about 2am and he had been in the scullery with the door closed. As he was slipping on his boots he heard footsteps coming from the living room. The steps came down our long lobby. Paused at the scullery door.
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Raffles
Author:
Bob Gibb
of Aberdeen
I walked up the road until I found a street tailor. I put in my order on the pavement side. He measured me and then said: "That will be four dollars, sir. Your order will be ready in an hour."
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A-SAS-sin?
Author:
Bob Gibb
of Aberdeen
It was around 2am when I took a look. I heard an unusual sound and then next thing, the gin palace engine started up and the damned thing started driving straight towards the front gate... and me!
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The New Recruit
Author:
L S Windhock
of Aberdeen
It sounded rather ominous. Looking around, about eight or nine others were obviously new recruits as well. They too had been given the laminated cards and forms, but had read and completed them some time ago, and the expression of half boredom, half terror on their faces was not encouraging.
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