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Josie Rashmi Smith's avatar

You took me with you, Kole, snot, bar stool, clanging bell and soft Aussie kindness. Great writing. Time for another story?

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Kole Flatau's avatar

oh definitely Josie, it would seem I’m rather partial to telling a silly story ! Thanks for reading.

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Shirley's avatar

Love your writing Kole. I was deeply immersed and found it very touching ❤️

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Kole Flatau's avatar

thanks for reading, Shirley. Yes, it does have a sweetness to it, doesn't it.

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Gunita Avižus-Siliņa's avatar

Love it! Slow morning with a cup of tea and your words! 🤍

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Kole Flatau's avatar

haha that’s lovely to hear but I hope you didn’t read it over breakfast !! Thanks so much for reading, Gunita

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Matthew Sutcliffe's avatar

days like these are simply the best, Kole.

(Ones where I read your stories, I mean, not all those snot-suffused barstool chaoses of time immemorialised.)

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Kole Flatau's avatar

ah you can’t beat a sticky barstool! Thanks, as always, for reading, Matthew

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Laura Lloyd's avatar

Love your vivid descriptions and the questions I’m left with

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Kole Flatau's avatar

oh! ....and the questions you're left with? They may take the story to wherever it was going....

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Laura Lloyd's avatar

It kind of felt like the start of a love story, but was it? What had happened to the protagonist for her to end up in that bar?

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Kole Flatau's avatar

oh I don't know anything about any of those questions! I could maybe do prequels of both characters, and what happened next. Perhaps. (I seem to like to write around a random thought-story until it exhausts itself, and then move onto the next random thought-story!!)

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Laura Lloyd's avatar

It definitely seems like the middle of a juicy saga to me 😋

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