Fiction Tiny Stories
The Allotment Where Every Tomato Has the Same Grandmother
Thirty-one plots, thirty-one opinions about slugs, and one single tomato that everybody grows, because a woman on plot twelve once dried seeds on a saucer.
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The Library Book That Came Back Forty-One Years Late
A book about birds, borrowed in the spring of a year nobody at the library could remember, arrived back through the returns slot with a very long letter tucked inside the cover.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Strip of Grass Between Number Nine and Number Eleven
For six summers, two neighbours who barely spoke each mowed a little more of the shared verge than was strictly theirs, and neither ever mentioned it to the other.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Village That Says Goodnight to the Lighthouse
Every night at ten, the lighthouse on Gull Rock flashes twice, and every night, all along the harbour front, kitchen lights blink twice in reply, though the keeper left forty years ago.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Oak on Tanner Road Turns Fifty
Nobody on Tanner Road could agree on anything, until someone found the date the oak outside number twelve was planted and pinned a birthday card to its trunk.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Barber Who Kept the Book of First Haircuts
Behind the till of a small barber shop sits a fat green ledger holding forty years of first haircuts, and one Saturday a man came in asking to see his own page.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Crossword That Took the Whole Train
Someone left a half-finished crossword on the morning train with a note saying over to you, and for a week the carriage quietly finished it together.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Shed With the Visitors Book
It holds a kettle, three mismatched mugs, a folding chair and a notebook on a nail that nobody started on purpose and nobody has ever stopped.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Station Piano That Learned One Tune
Every weekday a stranger plays the same little waltz on the platform piano, and the one morning he did not turn up, the whole station found out it had been listening.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Postbox That Gets a New Hat Each Season
Nobody has ever seen the knitter, but four times a year the postbox on the corner wakes up wearing something new.