Paragraph Planet: Wish You Were Here?

Published on ParagraphPlanet.com on 15th November 2010 :-

Wish You Were Here? (by Rachel J Bailey)
The splish and splash of waves echoes down the beach. I sit on smooth warm white pebbles, skin smelling of sun lotion. Sunlight ripples over rocks under the water, tinting them with turquoise green. Pristine white cliffs stretch round to enclose me in the scene. While you sit dreaming of my beach, half a world away, I sit under the hot sun, and feel the sands of my holiday dripping away.

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An Eye for an Eye - Now Available

"The front door opens, and I get my first sight of your other woman. She walks down the pavement towards my car, and I yank the sun visor down, trying to obscure my face. She doesn’t look in my direction – why would she? She doesn’t know who I am..."

Revenge is sweet - or is it? Rachel J Bailey's thriller flash story "An Eye for An Eye" is now available in Daily Flash 2011 from Pill Hill Press.

Daily Flash 2011 : 365 Days of Flash Fiction gives you a short story of 500 words or less, for each day of the year. Who says you never have time to read?

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The Golden Toad - Read Online

"It started with the toad.

"Mary came home one day, and saw its bulbous golden bottom pointing towards her as she opened the door. It had red stones for eyes, which followed her beadily every time she walked through the hallway. Strange, she thought, when she examined it one day. It’s only got three legs." Read more...

After John and Mary hire a housekeeper, their house undergoes a transformation. A transformation which isn't entirely to their liking. "The Golden Toad" is humourous flash fiction, now available on everydayfiction.com.

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Finding Freedom - Now Available

The woman was an exact copy of her — same eyes, same nose, same smile. Bethan stood and stared, as the woman waved at her from the other side of the window, until she was lead away. Seeing her double makes Bethan question her comfortable life inside the Nunnery where she was born, and long to find out what the world is like outside its walls.

"Finding Freedom" by Rachel J Bailey is now available in the anthology Patented DNA from Pill Hill Press. Patented DNA is an anthology of stories about human cloning, exploring the possibilities of cloning from a myriad of different angles.

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Paragraph Planet: One Year On

Published on ParagraphPlanet.com on 30th September 2010 :-

One Year On (by Rachel J Bailey)
He left Sally sleeping to make his phone call in secret, softly shutting the bedroom door behind him. “A dozen red roses for tomorrow,” he told the florist. “Message: ‘With all my love, on our paper wedding anniversary. I wish I could be there with you.’” A pause. “Yes, I’ll take the chocolates too.” Satisfied his duty was done, he padded back to the bedroom, to the woman who was not his wife.

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Paragraph Planet: The Wall

Published on ParagraphPlanet.com on 14th July 2010 :-

The Wall (by Rachel J Bailey)
Craig’s bedroom wall is a never disclosed shrine to film star Jessica Auburn. A picture of Jessica looking coyly from beneath the brim of a blue 1940’s style hat. Reviews of her first film. A saucy interview about her new relationship. Treasured, a picture, signed shortly before her death. But bolder than all of these, in the centre of the wall, the front page headline– “Jessica Auburn Murdered- Psychotic Stalker Still At Large.”

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Paragraph Planet: The Railway Platform

Published on ParagraphPlanet.com on 6th July 2010 :-

The Railway Platform. (by Rachel J Bailey)
A tribute to man’s dominance. Grey steel trees lead to a grey, corrugated iron sky, and the grey concrete grass is speckled with brightly coloured litter flowers. The river of tracks run on and on, brown and rust encrusted, but glinting on the surface. Like water, they carve their way through the landscape, carrying with them the flotsam and jetsam caught in their current, travelling ever onwards until they reach the sea.

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The Frog

In case you ever wondered what a Story Frog looked like ....