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    An Improbable Dream
    An Improbable Dream
    An Improbable Dream
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    An Improbable Dream

    By Violetta Antcliff

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    Adrian had never doubted his sexuality, he had a live-in partner, and now the law had changed they planned to get married. First however, he had to break the news to the family; therein lay the problem. His mother refused to accept the fact her son was homosexual and Liam O’Donall his Irish Catholic grandfather put it down to a phase he wa

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGypsy Shadow Publishing
    Release dateMar 6, 2020
    ISBN9781619503885
    An Improbable Dream
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    Violetta Antcliff

    Violetta Antcliff has been a member of the Nottingham Writers' Club for over twenty years. A winner of numerous short story competitions, her work was area short listed in Waterstone's Wow Factor story competition. Took first prize in Nottingham County Council short story competition with a story called "Irish Mouse Tales," which was published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing as an eBook in July of 2012. She has had her poetry and short stories read on local radio. Violetta is a prolific writer of short fiction, having written and published more than 40 short stories with Gypsy Shadow.

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      An Improbable Dream - Violetta Antcliff

      Contents

      Copyright Page

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      About the Author

      An Improbable Dream

      by

      Violetta Antcliff

      All rights reserved

      Copyright © October 13, 2014, Violetta Antcliff

      Cover Art Copyright © 2014, Charlotte Holley

      Gypsy Shadow Publishing, LLC.

      Lockhart, TX

      www.gypsyshadow.com

      Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of the author or the publisher.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or shared by any electronic or mechanical means, including but not limited to printing, file sharing, and email, without prior written permission from Gypsy Shadow Publishing, LLC.

      ISBN: 978-1-61950-388-5

      Published in the United States of America

      First eBook Edition: November 1, 2014

      Chapter 1

      Iron it yourself, can’t you? Who do you think I am, your bloody mother? Adrian’s handsome face was contorted with rage. He loosened his tie, kicked off his shoes and plonked himself down angrily on the settee.

      He’d had a long hard day at the office and the last thing he wanted was to come home to a domestic.

      He gently massaged his temples with his fingertips and closed his eyes, hoping the headache that had just started would go away without him having to resort to taking pills.

      Do you really need a clean shirt? I thought we’d decided to stay in tonight, order a take-away.

      You can stay in if you like, I’m going to the club, his partner retorted angrily. And whilst you’re asking, no I don’t think you’re my bloody mother. If you had been, I’d at least have had a clean shirt to put on.

      Adrian heard the front door bang to, and he knew any chance he’d had of making it up was now out of the question. He felt guilty. He knew Toby was right, it was his fault there were no clean shirts in the cupboard, or clean anything else, as far as that went. He’d been that busy at the office he hadn’t had time to think about domestic chores, let alone tend to them.

      He sighed, dragged himself up from the settee, and made his way through to the kitchen to make himself something to eat; but the cupboard was bare: no milk, no butter, zilch. He slammed the fridge door to. He’d started to calm down, but now his anger was back with a vengeance. He wasn’t the only one who’d been shirking his duties. It was Toby’s job to do the food shopping; they’d sat at the kitchen table less than a week ago and drawn up a list of whose own job it would be to do what.

      He returned to the lounge and sat, tight as a wound up spring, back down on the settee.

      It was starting to get dark outside, but he made no attempt to pull the drapes to or turn the

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