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    100neHundred
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    100neHundred
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    100neHundred

    By Laura Besley

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    A man carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of his shirt. During World War II, a young soldier searches the houses and barns of the families with whom he grew up. An astronaut wonders whether she can adapt to life back on earth.
    In her second collection of short fiction, 100neHundred, Laura Besley explores a kaleidoscope of emotions through 100 stories of exactly 100 words.
    So much of life is packed into these stories, precious moments and sad ones, humour and grief, gorgeous nuggets of hope and stinging barbs of hurt.

    Ellie Hawkes
    Laura has created beautiful snapshots, each one alive with precision and emotion. Each story excels in its originality, each one a complete tale, each carefully crafted without a word to spare.Bookbound
    With this collection I soon lost track of how many 'wows' I was uttering.. Morgen Bailey
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArachne Press
    Release dateMay 13, 2021
    ISBN9781913665289
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    Laura Besley

    Laura Besley is a full-time mum to two young boys and squeezes her writing time into the bookends of her day. She has recently been listed by TSS Publishing as one of the top 50 British and Irish Flash Fiction writers with her story ‘On Repeat’ (Reflex Fiction). Having lived in Holland, Germany and Hong Kong, she now lives in land-locked central England and misses the sea. Her flash fiction collection, 'The Almost Mothers', was published in March 2020. She tweets @laurabesley

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      100neHundred - Laura Besley

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      Winter

      Arrhythmia

      The Monthly Checker (Part I)

      Doppelgänger

      At Sea

      Left Hanging

      Inspection Day

      Murder, Suicide or Both

      Mother Tongue

      Recording Temperatures in Earth’s Thermosphere

      Place of Rest

      The Corrosion of a Marriage

      Filling in The Blanks

      Blue on A Red Day

      The Second Son

      One Half of a Whole

      If Only

      Between Words

      Strife

      Pangs

      Modern Romance

      Interwoven

      Out of Sight

      First Light

      Weekend Dad

      A Calendar Year

      Spring

      The Monthly Checker (Part II)

      A Hundred Days of Solitude

      A Hop, Skip and a Jump

      Wish List

      Invisible

      That Friday Feeling

      Lowest Ebb

      Ripple Effect

      Empathy

      The Old Songs

      Reunion

      On the Edge

      By Myself

      Death in Suburbia

      Almost Everything

      Paper Trail

      As One

      How to be Normal

      Weightlessness

      The Sneeze

      Chameleon

      Speed Reading

      Guiding Light

      Love is Love

      Early Warning

      Summer

      Animal Kingdom

      Breathe

      Radio Silence

      Raining Colours

      The New People

      Formalities

      Out of The Box

      Myopia

      Hindsight

      Not Waving

      Blink

      Suitcases

      Outsiders

      Advice

      On Repeat

      Money Talks

      Winning Numbers

      Too Many Words

      Karma

      Candy Floss

      Potluck Shopping

      Birthing

      Awakening

      Reckoning

      The Pupa Stage in the Lifecycle of Audrey Brown

      Autumn

      Empty Nest

      Be Prepared

      Daily Shop

      Alternate Weekends

      How the Camera Lies

      Autumn Colours

      Cat and Mouse

      Housewife 500

      Celebrity Crush

      A Life Half-Lived

      Mrs Potter

      A Storm in an Hourglass

      Flying Solo

      Buried Secrets

      Life Goes On

      Don’t Look Ahead

      Eeny Meeny

      Five Digit Pin

      Selective Hearing

      Beneath the Surface

      Mercy

      Just Ask

      Leap Year

      Conversion

      Support Network

      WINTER

      Arrhythmia

      Dave carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of his shirt, thinking – for he is a thoughtful man – that she’ll find the steady rhythm of his heart comforting.

      In the early days, she used to pummel him with her dainty fists, little bursts of energy banging out messages he couldn’t decipher. Instead, he pretended it was her heartbeat; blindly seeking his own comfort.

      As the days grow shorter and colder, they live in silence. His heartbeat is muffled by knitted layers. She sleeps most of the day, fists clenched, and still hugging her knees to her body for warmth.

      The Monthly Checker (part I)

      Because I had grown up here, amidst these fields and people, it fell to me to check the barns and outhouses of the farms for things, or people, that shouldn’t be there.

      On the first of the month, I would go to the Brauns; on the second, the Müllers; on the third the Hubers; until I had completed the monthly cycle again. All through the war.

      I suppose doing it that way it’s possible they knew I was coming, could move or hide things, or people, but I don’t suppose they would’ve dared.

      I certainly never found anything, nor anyone.

      Doppelgänger

      I almost didn’t see the you who wasn’t you.

      I was walking past the outdoor tables of the French café, and just at the last second, I caught a familiar hand gesture, and I looked again.

      It couldn’t have been you though, my love, because your other hand was clasping the hand of the woman opposite.

      Your heads were too close. She was laughing, that abandoned laughing you do when you’re

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