The following stories were submitted to our sister website, toowrite.com. They were written by people from Preston or are about Preston itself.
Granddad's Lucky War
Author:
Basil Hulatt
of High Peak
Why does everyone imagine that once we are old, we are also feeble and senile? Ok so maybe occasionally I do forget things and people do need to speak a little louder when they talk to me these days but the me that once was, is still there.
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There Are Times When I Feel
Author:
Alison Flynn
of Beaconsfield
I didn't really want to die. I just wanted it to stop. I tried to explain this to the doctor, but she was impatient with my incoherence, and shooed me out with a medical certificate for a week's leave from work.
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The Man Who Fell To Perth
Author:
Linley Kensitt
of Preston
He stared at someone in the audience, mouth hanging in an open pout, a smile pulling its corners. Then the glossed lips rolled into a grin of unruly teeth and he gazed down at his guitar. Pearly shadow covered his lids and the lashes sparkled. The lights went red. Ziggy scanned the crowd, no longer the flirt. Black caverns for eyes, molten cheekbones, puffball of crimson hair: a watchful, benevolent visitor.
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