The New Captain
The Affair
Thursdays
The Best Laid Plans ...
Lolly Shop
The Plastic Fantastic
Venice
Ode to a Bush Stone Curlew
Autumnal
Mt Wellington
Celeste
The Garden of Serenity
Cut and Thrust
Targa Race
Mrs Zonaben
Ode to Mount Wellington
Road Rage
Dreams go by Contraries
List of 2002 stories
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Lolly Shop
As a child she used to spend her pocket money on bullseyes, humbugs and licorice at a quaint old lolly shop down the lane. High on the top shelf stood a jar marked Shangri-la*. The shopkeeper kept this for grown-ups only. Frail old pensioners would sample lollies from this jar and walk out quite jauntily, she noticed.
War came. She was evacuated. Years later she returned to look for her lolly shop. It was gone. Today, sitting in her wheelchair, recalling her youthful vigour, she thinks wistfully :- "I wish I could find that lolly shop again to try some Shangri-la".
* n. an idyllic earthly paradise; an inaccessible land in the Himalayas in Lost Horizon, l933, a novel by James Hilton. The inhabitants never aged!
An exercise in writing a short story using only 100 words.
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