I Love You Crazy

 

So I’m lying in bed and suddenly I find that I’m thinking about you which I haven’t done for I don’t know how long but I’m remembering how you used to love it when I slept naked just like I’m doing right now.

 

The Broadsheet Story for August/September is I Love You Crazy by Naomi Alderman.

Naomi Alderman’s first novel Disobedience won the Orange Award for New Writers in 2006. In 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Her second novel The Lessons is published by Penguin Viking.

 
I Love You Crazy is not available for download.

September Broadsheets by venue:
Fisherton Mill, Salisbury – The Holy End
Forum Cafe, Blandford – I Love You Crazy
Oliver’s Coffee House, Sherborne – That Celeb. Smile
Town Mill Bakery, Dorchester – Ip Dip

Alternative

Stephen Clarke was twice the man I’ll ever be. I didn’t know him well. I spoke to him most days – I worked for him after all. I had a pint with him occasionally. I fancied his wife, of course. But I didn’t really know him. So it was a bit of a surprise when I was invited to his funeral.

 

The July Broadsheet Story is Alternative by Martin Cooper.

Dump

There were CCTV cameras on the gates, but they were watching for fly-tippers, not intruders. They recorded the ribbed surface of the concrete access road and the bindweed that swarmed up the wire fences separating trading estate lots.

 

The June Broadsheet Story is Dump by Martin Cooper.

That Celeb Smile

I never took any pictures of him, but I know exactly how I would have done it. He had long, wiry hair, very dark with here and there a startling silver strand. I would have stopped right down for the shallow depth of field and focused on a tangle of it, with the pores of the forehead behind. A hint of grey stubble, spark of something in the eye, all on the same plane; tip of the nose in front and ear ring further back, both beginning to blur. Black and white would have been good. Slowish film, with the prints blown up big enough to show the grain.

The May Broadsheet Story is That Celeb Smile by Martin Cooper.

Ip Dip

When my wife kicked me out I went to stay with friends at first. It only lasted a couple of weeks. I can see now how kind they were, but they were our friends, not mine, and I was asking them to choose sides.

 

The April Broadsheet Story is Ip Dip by Martin Cooper.

Lines of Desire

   “Hunt and peck still. Why don’t you learn to type properly?”
   “Can’t. Neural pathways too well worn.” Dan jabbed at the full stop. “I tried a couple of times but the fingers didn’t want to know. Anyway, I’m pretty quick like this.”
   “No you’re not. You think you are because you’re hitting lots of keys, but you’ve had to go back and make six corrections in the last four lines. I want the section title in bold, sub-headings in italics.”

The March Broadsheet Story is Lines of Desire by Martin Cooper.

Suffer a Witch

Oh, that thick accent of hers. It was eastern European with some Yiddish thrown in, and I was mortified for her. This was a neighbourhood of barbecues and baseball, of red-cheeked blond children who believed they’d grow up to be astronauts. Never mind that all our grandparents had changed their names from Goldstein to Gordon, from Szpilman to Smith. We were Americans.

The February Broadsheet Story is Suffer a Witch by Lauri Shaw.

Lauri Shaw is a contributor to the anthology Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys. Her novel Servicing the Pole can be found on her website laurishaw.com.

Suffer a Witch is not available for download.

Anything’s Possible

 

I looked at Alvin’s scrunched up red face, hungry, crying harder now. He was perfect, perfect fingers, perfect toes, the miracle of life. How was it possible?

 

The first Broadsheet Story for 2010 is Anything’s Possible by Trevor Maytum.

Five of Six

Five minutes of six, that was the time: the time when everything fell into place for a moment. The problem was that it was so quick, it just flew right past you. He tried to remember, to look for the clock to hit that moment in real life, to keep his eyes from blinking it away.

 

 

The Broadsheet Story for December 2009 is Five of Six by Teresa Perrin.

Teresa Perrin’s novels The Ice Cream Memories of Charlotte Rowe and Ephraim’s Echo can be read on her website dead-medium.com.

Meanwhile… Pandora

There are two children. They stand close together. The girl is taller and has her hand on the boy’s shoulder. She ties his shoe laces and reminds him to wash his hands before meals, Jonathan can tell that from the way they hold themselves.

 

 

The November Broadsheet Story is Meanwhile… Pandora by Martin Cooper.