{"id":905,"date":"2023-09-19T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=905"},"modified":"2023-09-19T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:55:01","slug":"short-stories-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/short-stories-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories #15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Half way! The fifteenth story in my collection of thirty, When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em> is another story following one of the characters – three children – briefly introduced in The Dark Trilogy<\/a><\/em>: ‘Simon’ – the young man who also featured in #12 ‘The Bookbinder’s Daughter’ – here we find out a little more about him. He is a publisher, there is an overseas trip to Frankfurt and Hamburg, there are new colleagues to get to know, and there is time by himself in a foreign city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He had been with the company over sixteen years when they made him a part of the team going to the Frankfurt Book Fair and asked him, as the new editor with responsibility for German sales, to spend a week at their Hamburg offices on the way home. Having a responsibility for overseas sales on top of his commissioning work was a nuisance, but it had been a promotion and meant more money so he had accepted it; in any case, German sales had never been a problem for them and it really only meant liaising with the Hamburg office once a month. And now, they were giving him a week in Germany. Things could be worse!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

‘Simon’ can be found in When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em> – available here<\/a> or on Amazo<\/a>n<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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