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On Barren Sands

On 10 May 202116 May 2021 By pocketfictionzineIn SatireLeave a comment

(1 minute read) by Lee Wright (U.K) We were in the Coin-Op Launderette, with no change for the dryer. I looked in my pocket, but all I had was an old photograph of me as a boy, riding a donkey on Blackpool beach. I am wearing a He-Man t-shirt and a pudding bowl haircut. My …

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