Fiction Tiny Stories
The Letterbox at the End of the Lane
It was decommissioned in 1998 and sealed with a metal plate, and people have been posting letters into it ever since.
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Fiction Tiny Stories
The Bus Driver Who Waited for the Runner
The 7:42 leaves at 7:42, except on the four mornings a week when it leaves at 7:43, for reasons the timetable does not record.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Wall Where Lost Gloves Go
Nobody started it and nobody runs it, but every glove dropped on Pellow Street ends up on the same twenty metres of railing, waiting to be claimed.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Traffic Cone That Became a Landmark
It was put over a pothole on Marsh Road in 2011. The pothole was filled in 2013. Nobody has been able to remove the cone since.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Lingerstride
(n.) The deliberately slowed walk you adopt on an otherwise empty pavement so that you never have to overtake the stranger ahead of you.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Ladder in the Window
For thirty-one years the hardware shop on Bell Street kept one wooden ladder in the window, never for sale, and the whole street quietly learned to give directions by it.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Lamppost That Knew Too Much
Lamppost #14 on Mulberry Lane developed opinions in the autumn of its eleventh year.