Borderland Tales


A Nice Girl Like You

Are you ready? I guess so. I mean, are you comfortable? Sure. Besides I know your first question. How did I get here? The ‘nice girl like you’ will be implied. But it’ll be there. How did a nice girl like me end up here? Thought crossed my mind. I’d probably phrase it less like…

Suckerpunch

She took his advice, rolling out of bed into running shoes the next morning and pounding down the firm sand with her cheap sneakers. She was fitter than she had thought. Those years of gymnastics and ballet had done more for her than she’d realised.  When she got back to the room, she was a…

Night in the Borderlands

The Borderlanders were night creatures. As the sun set, music pumped from seaside bars along the tourist strip. Souvenir shops stayed open and cocktails were sipped while tourists swayed to Fusion: a mix of traditional music, R&B and techno. Music to live short lives by. The clear humid sky was lit with night markets and…

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