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DAVID McTIGUE: The Wall

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I knew this stupid wall would be trouble. We intercepted intelligence to “Scramble.” By the time I got there it was chaos. Absolute carnage. There were militia everywhere, cavalry included. The rank stench of death hung in the air. I retched.

My initial impression was that Humpty Dumpty was pushed.

David McTigue is from Liverpool, UK. Writes flash fiction and poetry and loves music, football, crosswords, cookery, reading, and his wife, three kids, and baby grandson.

HANNAH FROGGATT: The Bells

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“Oranges and lemons,” say the bells of St. Clement’s.

“Cheating and stealing,” sing church bells in Ealing.

“Didn’t she earn it?” ask three bells at Barnet.

“One fatal blow,” says the bell of Harrow.

Big Ben deafens London. “We. Know. You. Killed. Her. Jack.”

Hands over my ears, I run.

Hannah is a technical author from London. She won the Junior Author International Short Story Award in 2015 and has published work in Myths of the Near Future and Writer’s Forum.