Far From The Madding Crowd

Stefan possessed a smile that could defuse even the worst of situations he meandered into. It was a smile that made your gut churn ever so softly, pleasantly; a smile that could ease irritable bowels, loosen the taught grip of aching heads, soothe aggravated joints, somehow decompress hardened muscle, if only for a moment, that

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Sucking on a vape to the mantra of I’m To Old For This Shit like an asthmatic with an inhaler he hid his face from view by tilting his head away from the medication hatch. He lowered his head and blew smoke at the floor. Outside in the garden he could hear a colleague establishing

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A familiar knock at the door; it reminded me of a cat scratching at carpet, all nails and fury. All four of us knew who that was. One person sighed audibly, one pretended not to hear, another got up to open the drawer of the printer as though something urgent had occurred to the paper

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