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Chapter 5

“Oooh, this is exciting! It is so very exciting! Isn’t that so amazing, Augustus, Adolphus, attending a real team meeting? Fancy it; we’re actually part of a team! And would you believe it, Olive said I might even be able to become a co-leader if I’m nice enough to her! What an honour, eh? AndContinue reading “Chapter 5”

Posted byCuriousWriterOct 17, 2021Posted inFiction, OliveLeave a comment on Chapter 5

Chapter 4

“Right, children!” bellowed the tall, angry-looking farmer’s wife. “Quieten down now! Quickly, come along! Children, please! I’m getting a headache from all of this noise, and my throat will hurt if I have to keep shouting!”             But the children around her showed no signs of quietening down. The pale elder boy in the poshContinue reading “Chapter 4”

Posted byCuriousWriterOct 16, 2021Posted inFiction, OliveLeave a comment on Chapter 4

Chapter 3

“Where on earth is Mary?” Olive demanded, tapping her shoes on the dirty floor.             She was sitting at a table covered in puddles of alcohol in her favourite pub, the Barmy Duck, opposite three other women, who sat nibbling peanuts or, in the case of Hetty Waters, sipping a tall glass of beer. TheContinue reading “Chapter 3”

Posted byCuriousWriterOct 15, 2021Posted inFiction, OliveLeave a comment on Chapter 3

Chapter 2

Olive was assessing the train compartments in the way a bourgeois architect might evaluate the suitability of a building for some grand artistic project. Specifically, she was looking for a compartment that was not full to the brim with snivelling children. Olive was not a snivelling child, and did not care to associate with thoseContinue reading “Chapter 2”

Posted byCuriousWriterOct 14, 2021Posted inFiction, OliveLeave a comment on Chapter 2

Chapter 1

“Olive! I’m going out. Augustus and Adolphus said they’d meet me at the cinema at half past eight because of the cool, hip new film that’s out. It’s meant to be fabulous. It’s meant to be cool. You ought to see it, actually. Oh, and I expect Brandon will be there. You know, Brandon, theContinue reading “Chapter 1”

Posted byCuriousWriterOct 12, 2021Posted inFiction, OliveLeave a comment on Chapter 1

Prologue

[Hello. 🙂 This is an edited version of a novel that I wrote (with contributions from my friend) when I was about 14-16. It’s a bit juvenile in places, but I wanted to post it anyway!] It was a bright spring day in October, and the room was filled with the sound of hammering rain.Continue reading “Prologue”

Posted byCuriousWriterOct 11, 2021Oct 30, 2021Posted inOliveLeave a comment on Prologue

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