Fiction Tiny Stories
The Choir That Rehearses in the Launderette
When the hall roof began to leak, the Thursday choir moved into the launderette next door, and the spin cycle turned out to have excellent timing.
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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 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.
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Dodgewaltz
(n.) The short, unrehearsed dance performed by two strangers on a pavement who both step left, then both step right, then both apologise, then both step left again.
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 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.
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.
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.