Fiction Tiny Stories
The Ferryman Who Waved at Every Boat
For years a river ferryman waved at every passing boat, including one kayak that never waved back, until one grey Thursday in March.
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Fiction Tiny Stories
The Casserole Dish That Never Went Home Empty
One blue dish, two neighbours and a low garden wall: for years it crossed back and forth, and it was never once allowed to make the trip with nothing inside.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Window Box That Faces the Bus Stop
A window box on the third floor of Aldergate Road is planted the wrong way round on purpose, so that the people waiting for the 47 have something better to look at than a shuttered travel agent.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Remote Control That Hides Itself
A television remote with rubber tracks and a clock inside, which drives itself into the gap between the sofa cushions every night at eleven, because that is where it feels safest.
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.
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 Useless Inventions
The Seat-Saving Sofa Cushion
It learns the exact shape of the person who sits there most, and when anyone else settles into that spot, it inflates, very politely, until they move.
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.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Why Is the Other Side of the Pillow Always Cooler?
Flipping your pillow to the cool side is the smallest holiday there is, and the reason it works is a lovely bit of physics hiding in the fluff.