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July 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: The Year of The Rat

I lived alone, apart from a huge rat. It left its shits all over the place, all through my kitchen and in the wardrobe, I did nothing about it at all – beyond limiting the amount of time I spent in the place. I left the lava lamp on but had otherwise totally checked out. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1996, Short Story, Short Story: The Year of The Rat, The Year of The Rat ·

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June 30, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: We Could Mend Fences

We removed your post. Now the whole fence is in danger, having to take the weight of that one thing you said. We didn’t understand the context. Now your fence is going to have to support your views even with that post taken from view. Taken from you and placed in the pile of deadwood, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Fence, Post, Short Story, Short Story: We Could Mend Fences, We could mend fences ·

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June 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: National Party Conference

We were not infected. We were not to blame. We were not chasing. We were not being chased. We were not the control in the experiment. We were not a part of any of it. We sat high on the hill. We watched. We wrote notes. (Like this). We told stories – mostly about our […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged National Party Conference, Short Story, Short Story: National Party Conference, We ·

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June 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: We Can’t Build Our Dreams

He startled awake. It had all been a dream. This would have been the perfect end to a story, clichéd? Absolutely. But safe. Secure. Instead, however, this was only the start. And it wasn’t even a story. Brandon knew the world he’d just imagined could never come true. And that was the saddest part of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Elvis Presley, Short Story, Short Story: We Can’t Build Our Dreams, Suspicious Minds, We Can’t Build Our Dreams ·

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June 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Be Careful How You Say You Were Not There

She said, “I met you at Mark and Ali’s house”, and you said, “I don’t think so”. So, with very much a case of too much enthusiasm indeed, she said, “Mark. And. Alison. Taylor!” Like that cheerleading enunciation would suddenly take you right back. But you stood firm, didn’t travel anywhere in fact. And said, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Be Careful How You Say You Were Not There, Short Story, Short Story: Be Careful How You Say You Were Not There ·

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May 31, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Hillsong

The hill was worth the climb they said, but they said that before they left. After they reached they top, they had a very different view. And all they were able to say about that was, pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff pfff […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Hillsong, Pfff, Short Story, Short Story: Hillsong ·

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May 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: When The Music Phase Is Over Tune Out What’s Right

She had asked when the music phase would be over. And I took offence. But also took a cue. I followed up on it just a few short years too late. But better then – than never. The music remains. But the phase is over.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Short Story, Short Story: When The Music Phase Is Over Tune Out What’s Right, Story, When The Music Phase Is Over Tune Out What’s Right, When The Music's Over ·

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April 29, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: My Mum

This teacher in high school told us all to write out the lyrics to our favourite song and bring a tape or CD into class to play the tune. We’d read the lyrics out and play the song to the class – talk about why we choose it – what it was about. She played […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Billy Joel, Lou Reed, My Mum, Short Story, Short Story: My Mum ·

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April 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Hawke’s Bay, 1993

We watched the cows get loaded up the ramp, where they walked to their death with a fear in their eyes. They put their heads down low as the bolt went through their ear. And then a big, dull sound as they hit the floor. A chain dragged them, one-by-one, by the ankle, lifting them […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1993, Cows, Field Trip, Freezing Works, Hawke's Bay, Hawke's Bay 1993, HB, School, Short Story, Short Story: Hawke's Bay 1993, Slaughterhouse ·

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April 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: The Gladstone, 1982

The Gladstone, 1982. It was better than anything you ever saw, and most things you’ve gone on to do I can tell you that right now. For free. We were up front and the microphone hit me in the face and when I tasted the sweat of the singer it went down like the coldest […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1982, Bands, Christchurch, Fiction, Music, NZ, Short Story, Short Story: The Gladstone 1982, Story, The Gladstone, The Gladstone 1982 ·

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April 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Heroes Are Hard To Find

It’s always hard naming heroes, you try to include them all, you think about the obvious ones like Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson and then, you know, a few less obvious ones – Janet Malcolm for instance. Does anyone name her? (More writers should). But naming heroes, plural, implies a list. And a list implies […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Heroes Are Hard To Find, Short Story, Short Story: Heroes Are Hard To Find, Story ·

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April 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Spoil The Rod

I don’t have a spare child!
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged I don’t have a spare child!, Short Story, Short Story: Spoil The Rod, Spoil The Rod ·
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