David Dumouriez

BIOGRAPHY

I was born, if not yesterday, then certainly at an early age. At
different points, my writing and I have occupied spaces as varied as
here, there and nowhere.

Stories

The King’s Patrol

It’s only afterwards maybe, when you’ve had time to run it through again and again from all angles, that a sudden accident starts to make any sense. At the time you’re being propelled in such an unstoppable blur that the loss of all awareness soon leads to the loss of consciousness.
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2
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Sebastian and the Slugs

Seb was happy enough in that there was no homework. There was no need to worry about grades either. Or exams. Well, how could there be? There was no school any more! And Tess, his older sister, said there never would be again.
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7
- Age Rating:
PG

Appointment at 10:30

‘Bloody hell!’ said Detective Constable Bright. ‘It’s a minefield!’

‘There’s more …’ replied Detective Sergeant Dawes with a grimace.
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5
- Age Rating:
PG

The Market, The Market...

If there was one thing Alex knew about JP by now, it was that the elaboration of a keenly held opinion wouldn’t be far away. And so it proved.
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6
- Age Rating:
U

Elsinore Elsie

Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. When she realised that his eyes were upon her, she said in a throaty voice, ‘Oh, don’t mind me, dear. You carry on.’
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4
- Age Rating:
PG

Within, and Without

Perhaps I even saw it as a foretaste of things to come: the hopefully not-too-distant days when my destiny would be fulfilled, and I’d be a key inhabitant, one of the new history makers.
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6
- Age Rating:
PG

Two Extremes

While I was indulging in the ritual hand blowing that characterised my Christmas travels around the graveyard, I noticed a man who was by a grave which was two rows forward and three plots along from where I was.
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6
- Age Rating:
PG

Redesigning God

As a rule, the Bishop was more in than out. Consequently the size, the airiness, and the aggressive modernity of the room made quite an impression on him. Deacon Sue realised this from the way he quietly looked around and nodded.
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11
- Age Rating:
PG

23 Years

They were in a shop together. It was Ryman in the Strand, opposite Superdrug. She had spent the day shopping in the West End. He had been at work. They hadn’t seen each other for more than twenty years.
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19
- Age Rating:
U

Dessie Goes North

Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
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7
- Age Rating:
PG

Finding the Right Fit

Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
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2
- Age Rating:
15