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Copyright © 1997 Mark Collins.
All rights reserved and reproduction without written permission expressly prohibited.
Home From Home
"One by one the stars came out..." she mused.
"What's that?" Josh asked taking her by the hand. How
he never wanted to lose her.
"It's a line I read in a book a long time ago." Mo
embraced him, enjoying the pull of the wind against her
clothes. High above them the wind was tugging the clouds
across the darkening sky. "It's been a lovely day," she
continued. "Too short by half." And this day had been like
their first day together; their whole time together `too
short by half'.
[End of this extract. The full story was shortlisted in a Writers' News competition,
Summer 1997]
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