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Harold the confectioner…

Harold the confectioner was often derided by his contemporaries, unfairly in his opinion, as being all brittle and no peanut.

May never expected the blood to geyser out of her eyebrow & form a pretty pool on her eyelid. It was taking home make-over to the extreme.

Joan thought the French alphabet on the nursery wall would improve Maeve’s prospects Yet all it did was produce a kid who thought ‘e’ was for snail.

Jeremiah had the sort of face that amused small children and unsettled the elderly.

Too late in life, Jerry had come to understand that his ability to surprise and delight was equalled only by his capacity to disappoint.

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He wore tatty slippers, smoked a pipe and swore like a trooper but Barney Thistlepot may just have been the best damn tap dancer I ever met.

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Oliver hadn’t built his 12ft tall armoured robot to win power, fame or fortune but, rather, in a sorely misjudged attempt at courtship.

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Stubby mountain peaks curved a lazy horseshoe around the canyon’s mouth; jagged, broken molars punching skywards through mist.

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Nobody was surprised when Charlie quit his day job and opened up an artisan pizzeria. He’d always been a topper.

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Though they could never quite put their finger on why, there was something about the sleepy town of Killington that set visitors on edge.

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He wore tatty slippers, smoked...

He wore tatty slippers, smoked a pipe and swore like a trooper […]