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The Daily Fiction Project: 159. The Black Feather

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159 The Black Feather. Part 3 of the series, 'The Circle'. AFTER EVERYTHING WENT WRONG in Genoa, the Circle went to ground. Each of us went off in our separate directions. This website is a remnant of something that happened once. From November 2012 to the end of July 2013, with a month off in May, the Daily Fiction Project published an improvised story every weekday - 160 stories all told. These stories were deliberately published freshly improvised, warts and all. Read more about the DFP. 120 On the Run.

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The Daily Fiction Project: 151. The Island

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Part 1 of a two-part series of the same name. THE MOST ASTONISHING INSTANCE of metempsychosis, or the migration of souls, I have ever come across was as a student, while I was researching my doctoral dissertation. This website is a remnant of something that happened once. From November 2012 to the end of July 2013, with a month off in May, the Daily Fiction Project published an improvised story every weekday - 160 stories all told. Read more about the DFP. 115 The Golden Thread. 120 On the Run.

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The Daily Fiction Project: 153. On Clouds

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I AM, AT HEART, a lazy man, never more content than when I am idle. I'm happiest lying back on the couch by the window, watching the clouds sail overhead, drifting in and out of sleep. I've always been this way, even as a child. My grandmother used to say to me, You should have been born a pasha. These stories were deliberately published freshly improvised, warts and all. Read more about the DFP. 115 The Golden Thread. 120 On the Run. 41 The Love Life of Siamese Twins.

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The Daily Fiction Project: 63. The New Analysand

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63 The New Analysand. Part 1 of a series of the same name. ALTHOUGH IN THEORY I'M not taking on new patients, I somehow contrived to begin treatment with a new analysand today - I'll call him A. Profile: writer in his late 30s. (Another bloody writer - seems to have become something of a specialty! Other symptoms: conflicted about love and sex (self-described romantic yet severely phobic about relationships - typical writer! Currently single but infatuated (added, "As always! He is aware of my work with ...

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The Daily Fiction Project: 155. The Long, Dark Knight of the Soul

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155 The Long, Dark Knight of the Soul. Part 6 of the 'Tunnel' series. IN JUNE 1940, THE German writer RK Stampflinger fled Paris with his sister Dora. Travelling on foot, they were part of an exodus of two million people fleeing the Nazis, among them Jews, gypsies, stateless émigrés, and - above all - French communists intent on avoiding the clutches of the Gestapo. The monumental Catacombs Project. But Stampflinger, a German Jew with no papers, had his hopes set on North America, the shore upon which ma...

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The Daily Fiction Project: 157. The Automaton

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The third and final part of the 'New Analysand' series. I DOZED OFF AGAIN – that’s the third time this month. Perhaps my wife is right, and I should consider retirement. This website is a remnant of something that happened once. From November 2012 to the end of July 2013, with a month off in May, the Daily Fiction Project published an improvised story every weekday - 160 stories all told. These stories were deliberately published freshly improvised, warts and all. Read more about the DFP. 120 On the Run.

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The Daily Fiction Project: 108. The Circle

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Part 1 of a series of the same name. IT WAS A CIRCLE of six: Max, Floyd, Raoul, Sebastian, Kim and Holly. This website is a remnant of something that happened once. From November 2012 to the end of July 2013, with a month off in May, the Daily Fiction Project published an improvised story every weekday - 160 stories all told. These stories were deliberately published freshly improvised, warts and all. Read more about the DFP. 115 The Golden Thread. 120 On the Run. 41 The Love Life of Siamese Twins.

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The Daily Fiction Project: 152. The Mutiny

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Part 2 of the series, 'The Island'. THE FOLLOWING MORNING, BEFORE they are flogged, the three seamen beg the suspension of the punishment, for they have an amazing tale to tell. This website is a remnant of something that happened once. From November 2012 to the end of July 2013, with a month off in May, the Daily Fiction Project published an improvised story every weekday - 160 stories all told. These stories were deliberately published freshly improvised, warts and all. Many of these stories do not sta...

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The Daily Fiction Project: 30. Vertigo

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AT THE AGE OF 18, in the middle of her final year of high school, Alice's mother died of cancer. She bought a van and went to second-hand stores, and filled her flat with furniture from the 1950s, her favourite decade. She then bought herself an entirely new wardrobe of clothes, using as her model the great Hitchcock heroines: Kim Novak in Vertigo. Of course, but also Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest. And Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief. Many of these stories do not stand the test of time. Other...