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Steve Gallup

Author of What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son, www.fatherspledge.com

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Old photos evoke frank memories of a woman's life.

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A father unexpectedly comes to terms with the direction his son's life has taken.

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The first of several short pieces I wrote long ago, nominally about the rise of civilization

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Sometimes taking separate paths is unavoidable. Sometimes departure is what you've always wanted.

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An excerpt from my published memoir

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Just a bit of verse that came to me as I walked past the schoolyard.

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Bloody Shaggers cover

You can end up having the strangest conversations whilst driving through the countryside.

  • 164 reads
Blue cover

A girl gains her sight after never being able to see

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A Strange Occupation cover

Actress Helen Holden wakes in hospital after an accident to find a stranger by her bed.

  • 111 reads
At the Station cover

A network of tubes kept them plugged to life...and patients and doctors came and went like trains

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Tales from the Heart - Bedroom Talk cover

"Bedroom Talk", is a story taken from my short story collection, Tales from the Heart, a bumper book of twenty stories about love, family and friendship. A woman cooks a meal for her ex-husband, but has more than food on her mind... Can a new arrival remind a family of what is really important in life..? A young couple's love transports an elderly woman into the past... Will love second time around heal old scars..? Warring grandparents refuse to see eye to eye... Are family secrets best kept hidden..? A wise man's last request brings surprises for his great-niece...

  • 136 reads
Rumours cover

When it's your daughter that goes missing from school, it's hard to keep things in perspective...

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A Right Good Choice cover

The folks at Slick & Junebug's Diner discuss a woman with questionable morals who is dating a new man in town. Should someone tell him?

  • 254 reads
Ebony Eyes cover

A chance meeting, a beautiful girl, a melting heart. Ricky Madison was staring at a vision and she smiled back just for him. So what was is with the spooky song which seemed to follow him around everywhere?

  • 127 reads
Hang Around cover

A cowboy, a Buddhist monk, and others relive the results of one choice. Hang Around appears in an upcoming short story anthology, Ghost Dust

  • 205 reads
The Author cover

An author discovers that his book is missing from the library.

  • 121 reads
Boys for Beginners - Chapter 1 cover

When Charlie Notts starts at school, Gwynnie decides now might be the time to start being a girl. Buy it on Amazon: http://amzn.to/qNPFgW

  • 168 reads
The Post-Script cover

The drunken post-mortem of a failed relationship

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No favours #AcrossTheAges cover

An old lady on the way home from shopping finds an unlikely ally.

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Message in a Rock cover

Her son finds it on a beach. Is that writing? What it is she doesn't know. What it says she might regret ever wanting to find out...

  • 107 reads
Eden Tours cover

Time-travellers' tour destination; the beginning of time on Earth. Time so different from their own seduces them and threatens their return

  • 71 reads
Full Circle cover

This is the true story of my best friend's first love, and how it came full circle. It's an important story that needed to be told.

  • 89 reads
Bodies Terrestrial cover

Kids with a gun discover a mystery

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The Ad Agency cover

What would advertisements look like if the government required them to be truthful and not misleading?

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Waiting For The Conet's Call cover

An academic stumbles across a mysterious radio transmission in a remote Norwegian town

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THE TAXBELL cover

When the bureaucrats make 'pleasuretax' a literal reality, some people go insane.

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