Curious stories for curious people

The Curious Stories

Mountain pressure
Ups and downs and winter birds singing around them. The pine trees’ scent, the wind…
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Noel Murphy
Lucy’s days
The noodles would slip down and fill his stomach, taking away the humiliation he felt…
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Tim Smith
It comes to some of us in the End
Tom ‘Bopper’ Keys was returned unto the earthly Earth. That much was certain.
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Noel Murphy
Sydney by cab
I’ve heard of thousand dollar bottles, dug from Napoleonic cellars over which a shopping mall…
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Tim Smith
To You All of Ye, You Know Who You Are!
What she said added to my later tears but there were so many of those…
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Tim Smith
A patient shark
Maybe I am an escapologist and this is a show? Seems unlikely.
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Tim Smith
Barleycorn Buildings
The start of the novel that ever had the chance to end.
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Noel Murphy
Love
Their laughter isn’t loud. It is a lovely, moving event. They are gone quickly.
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Tim Smith
Janssen Stand Down!
Imagine a place full of people making laws who have no idea what it’s like…
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Noel Murphy
It is what it is
It is not a stroke of luck to be born where you were born. Everybody…
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Tim Smith
Fat Man
Then he stripped to red-ochre painted nakedness and drank a bottle of gin to wash…
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Noel Murphy
Kerrigan’s Streak
Imagine winning the lottery. Then imagine winning it more than once. Meet Nancy Kerrigan.
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Tim Smith
The outer space restaurant review
“Bawbags”, she whispered. “Now what?”
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Noel Murphy
He thought he was a Christ
A man, his cat, a burglary.
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Noel Murphy
The dreadful Msr Loussiere
1919 was the year that changed it all.
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Noel Murphy
To you all. You know who you are!
The thing with Curran was that he was forever leaving notes about the place. The…
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Noel Murphy
The Flying People
There is no peace for them, so there must be no peace for anybody. That’s…
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Tim Smith
Dapper Dale
Kathleen and me had been up late talking. She talked about babies and I talked,…
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Tim Smith
Haring down the hill
He sat in the churchyard, feeling the fag packet in his pocket. He didn’t want…
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Noel Murphy
A Rank Sandwich in Bolton – Part 1: before the Murder
You would never have believed that she’d been one of the first female pilots in…
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Noel Murphy