Precious You by Helen Monks Takhar

Author:Helen Monks Takhar [Monks Takhar, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2020-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

“Really? Well, that’s something, then. Funny, Kathy always used to say something like that. The way I used to write copy, in my agency days, always brought people in. She said she didn’t know how to do what I do.”

“Wow. That’s really…sweet.”

“Can I tell you something?”

“Anything.” I draw my chair in, so he’s practically touching my sweater with the back of the hand that’s wrapped around his tumbler. I’m thinking I could probably turn the night right there and then, but then he dips down and starts rifling through his backpack.

“I tried to dig out the last thing Kathy wrote. Couldn’t find it, but I did find her first manuscript. She’d kill me if she knew, she’s never even let me read this one. But you seem to have made quite the impression on my girl, got under her skin, for want of a better expression, and you seem to know your stuff when it comes to writing. Would you maybe have a little look and see what you think? Maybe we can think about how to get her going on her own stuff too? It might really help her feel like herself again.”

He handed me her manuscript. Just like that. A portal to her inner thoughts in the palm of my hands.

“I don’t know what to say.”

“Just say you’ll have a little read, have a little think. Maybe we could compare notes next time? Try to help her? Right, I’m off to get us another pair of these,” he says, scooping up our glasses.

“OK, I’ll make a start now.”

CREEP FEEDER

By Katherine Ross

“The animals eat before you,” her mother tells her over and over. Every day, when she’s rocked awake at 4:30 in the morning. It’s hard in the summer, heart-stopping in the winter. She asks for food, a bit of bread to stop her stomach from attacking her. Every morning, she’s told the same thing: she’s at the bottom of the pile, ahead of her are 500-odd ewes roaming clueless on the poor soil her mother refuses to feed too.

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