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  • Believer
  • THE PRIEST AND THE COBBLER'S DAUGHTER
  • Love from fire
  • The Grand Tour
  • Believer

    Top Ten Things to Believe in This Year #10 Santa Claus Do you believe in Santa Claus? I don’t anymore. I used to think he was this kind man with big hands whose smile was pale and stretched lines into the moon. My childish thoughts shaped this man who drew snowflakes and birds into the sky like a coloring book. But that was ended for me when my grandmother let those three forbidding words slide off the tip of her tongue. I used to be a stupid child who knew nothing but how the light combed through the sky. Now I know things, like how Santa is a man who wrapped his problems in bright hues. He ...SMEone door

    THE PRIEST AND THE COBBLER'S DAUGHTER

    “Saleem, how long have you been running this shop selling coconuts and fruit?” “It’s over twenty years I think. You say you’re a cop newly transferred to this place.” “Yes. I want to hear about this place and people. You’re an old timer and I’m sure you could tell me a lot.” “Ahead is the very steep www.onedoor.ccmountain road with many twists and turns to the mountain resort. People who come in buses, cars and so on halt here to worship at that temple opposite praying for a safe journey.” “How is business here?” “It isn’t booming but I earn enough to make me live comfortably with my wife.” “I was told the ...SMEone door

    Love from fire

     "There's still someone in there Nathan, but she said she's not coming out until she find what she's looking for"."Shit I'll go in now, take that woman to the ambulance so that they can take care of her". After watching James pulling the wounded woman towards the ambulance, I started running back into the building. As I got into the building, I started shouting in case she might hear me. As I got into an office, I saw a woman in her early twenties choking as she was trying to grab hold of the table in front of her so she could stand up. I ran towards her and knelt beside her holding her head t...SMEone door

    The Grand Tour

    The Grand Tour. Captain Hendry took the opportunity of the trip from ship to market to lecture me on the item we hoped to precure. I feigned interest, as is the polite thing to do, nodding at appropriate times. ‘The Bromillian Core is grown rather than manufactured. It starts life as an imperfection, a stray grain of pollen or some such that lands on the bark of a tree in the jungle colony, much like a grain of sand in an oyster creates a pearl.’ Hendry liked to use these obscure references, I acted as if I knew what he was talking about. ‘The tree embraces the pollen grain, if that is indeed ...SMEone door

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