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NEW STORY: Just Passing Through

danielbrotzel • Apr 08, 2021

New story shortlisted for The Phare's WriterWords competition...

A man and a woman, lying together by the poolside, one wrapped in the other, a red swimsuit, a confusion of limbs. Conspiracy of giggles and tender silences. When they speak, the woman’s voice is the one I know best of all in my whole little world...


Delighted to make the shortlist for The Phare Magazine's Spring 2021 WriteWords competition with 'Just Passing Through',  a short story about a man and his frail mother who revist their old home, now completely remodelled but still able to trigger complex , long-buried memories...


Read full story here


Pic: Photo by Carlos Felipe Vericat Sanz on Unsplash




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