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by
C.P. Ward
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October 1 - October 2, 2023
Jennifer Stevens paused at the entrance to Brentwell Primary,
‘Rick Fellow. I teach Year Five.
managing only to grab hold of Rick’s hand.
Male charecter enters and our heroine cant even stand up. Naurally!
‘Careful, if the kids see us there’ll be talk,’ Rick said, with another smug grin.
Eurgh, i hate him
A dumpy woman in her fifties who looked like she hadn’t smiled since childhood, dropped down a pile of photocopying with a sigh and came stumping over.
Fat shaming
They say teachers age at twice the rate of normal people.’
‘Greg Downton. Call me Greg in private, Mr. Downton in front of the kids.’
one tubby young girl who gave her a wide grin, most of the teachers were older than her and
Fat shaming, mark 2
spectacles so thick you couldn’t be sure of the size of his eyes.
she’s never coming back, because she’s joined a cult and run off to South America.’
WTF
And she didn’t need a swift glass of wine to pull it off.
Alcohol joke, brilliant
‘I’d worry more about Rick than the kids.’ ‘Rick? You mean, uh, Mr. Fellow?’ ‘Our resident conquistador. You’re single, aren’t you?’
Urgh
Bonky, her little toy poodle,
her cat, James,
Bonky
Wtf
Angela Dawson.
Lovely little things.’ Angela stood up. ‘Bonky? That’s … interesting.’
Labels began to offer themselves, but it was too early to make any kind of a judgment on the boy or his home life.
The agony of moving out of Mark’s flat, quitting her job, suffering her parents’ obvious disappointment …
From her usual window seat, Jennifer watched the park outside,
This is her second visit
‘You had everything. I don’t know what you’re playing at throwing it away.’
Almond mum
fur-children
Ffs
unflattering jogging bottoms huffing and puffing along the path towards her.
Fat shaming again
It was clear that Amy, now stopped, would never get started again. She leaned on her knees, drawing in great, gasping breaths.
Double pork roll?’ Amy, clearly friends with the man, nodded. ‘Thanks, Pete. Extra mayonnaise, but hold the chilli sauce.’
Jennifer would have preferred something a little healthier, but Amy had a conspiratorial look in her eyes, and it was Saturday after all.
avoid bumping into Tom,
Shes met him twice??
Frustrated, Jennifer sat down on a bench and thumbed through her phone’s contact list.
Now she wants to talk
While not Jennifer’s first choice,
Snob
practically licking her lips with excitement
Fat shaming slob
saw a family of big people
Fat shaming 4
Amy, resembling a hamster with her cheeks crammed full of thick chunks of chicken tikka,
Fat shaming 5
two enormous hill-sized people
Fat shaming 6
she hoped one day it would flop out while he was taking a sip and upend itself down his shirt.
‘Come join us if you fancy a couple of extra laps,’ he said. ‘Not going to burn off breakfast watching DVDs about wildlife.’
At this attempt at humour, there was a brief curl at the edge of Gavin’s lips,
Not funny
twice Matthew’s weight and boisterous. Most kids would bounce off him.
Fay shaming 7
Lots of money. He drove a Tesla, shopped at Waitrose—’
Too many poor people.’
We had a maid so I didn’t need to clean, and we had home food deliveries so I didn’t even need to cook. Just open the packets, eat, throw away.’
Irrelevant
Tom seems nice, but I just can’t do relationships right now.’
Shes met him twice
person so long suppressed by Mark’s presence,
Thought he was only there one weekend every 2 months?
Tom looked like he’d just come out of a potting shed, wearing a tatty waxed jacket, jeans, and a faded cap he could have pulled out of a rubbish bin.
Snob
‘That’s Tom Reynolds,’ Jennifer said. ‘He’s the park caretaker.’
Amy that she had spoken to a woman at Rick’s house, and falling in love with Tom.
Shes met him 3 times
The underlying snob part of her—the rule that she should always aim for someone higher in station than herself drilled into her by her mother throughout her teenage years—felt reluctant to get involved with a man who worked as a glorified gardener, while the moral part of her felt it inappropriate, and
It not underlying hun
‘He’s just a caretaker.’ Angela lifted an eyebrow. ‘Is that what you think?’ ‘I didn’t mean—’ ‘I imagine someone who cuts grass for a living is a step down from an investment banker, but are you sure one is better than the other?’
best to slug a quick glass of wine before going on,
Alcoholism
mummer
hair pressed beneath a thin-brimmed hat that was almost dapper.
???
