Papers

They blew away. 100,000 words left on the ledge. Had she backed them up? If only the window was closed and the wind hadn’t blown. #130story

'Free press' became 'fake news' then contraband, pulped and recast into State News.
The Resistance mobilised via coded obituaries.
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Between the end papers of birth and death the autobiography each of us is writing would be improved by laughter in every chapter #130story

Son, I said, print is dead. You know what that means for us in the kidnap business? No more papers equals no more cut-out letters. #130story

She laid the papers.. there was no mention of what happened last night. She panicked as she realised no one would know, unless.. #130story

I think of every scritch from the editor's red pen as failure. But today my story had no typos or extra words. No red, just black. #130story

Goat a ciggie, pal?
Baccie dae?
Aye, ta.
Here - keep the rest & these papers.
You're a star, sir.

That night it snowed heavily.
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He walked in, looking as if something was on the tip of his tongue. Maybe what he wanted to say was amongst the papers he left.
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#130story He came home to find five different wallpaper samples taped to the sitting room wall. His heart sank; he didn't like any of them

The checkpoint guard glared at me sternly as he drummed his fingers on the desktop. I had had seriously overlooked something here. #130story