Everybody’s Good at Something – Camilla Kelly – 2000 words (Feel Good)
Lucie’s violin playing is horrible, but how do you break that to a 12-year-old?
Everybody’s Good at Something
Lucie’s violin playing was so bad I had to resist putting my fingers in my ears.
“Lucie,” I said, after a horrible rendition of Twinkle Twinkle, “you haven’t been practicing, have you?”
“No, miss, I have,” she insisted. I would have believed her – practice didn’t seem to improve her playing noticeably even when she did do it – but she followed it almost immediately with a confession. “No, actually, I haven’t. Sorry.”
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Secret Santas – Camilla Kelly – 8500 words (Commercial)
It’s Sally’s first Christmas working for a festive catalogue company and she’s thrown in at the deep end. Josie’s got an unrequited crush, Deb’s got a melancholy six–year-old, and Michael’s got an embarrassing secret. No one’s got much Christmas spirit…
Secret Santas
This Christmas, Mr Dooley told them, they were going to do something different.
Sally had arrived at the office that morning just in time to hear Deb call a staff meeting. The others were already crowding around Deb’s desk, taking their seats, waiting for Mr Dooley to arrive to chair the meeting.
“Must be Secret Santa time again,” Deb said. “He always likes to organize that himself.” She checked her watch impatiently, tapping her patent leather shoe on the floor.
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