Dryden Shorts: Solid Foundations

Every morning their Mum would call them together. They knew the drill. Have you washed? Brushed your teeth? Let me check? Brush them again. You know you can’t go out and let people smell rotting breath. OK, open your Bibles. What does it say? What does it mean? Remember your prayers. Then they were allowed […]

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Student of the Game

John thought to study something was a task you did removed from that thing. It took meeting up with Ben to show him that studying something properly required immersion in that thing as much as possible. The first time he met Ben was a chance encounter in a library. They were in the same section […]

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Uproot, Get Rid, Start Afresh

There was something about how it was coming together. Some areas looked really good, but he couldn’t get away from the fact that other areas just looked … shabby. What was springing up in those areas was not what he was expecting at all. Something had to be done. It was not going to be […]

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A Wonderful Light

One of my favourite jokes is the warning a fellow gave to another to be careful of the light at the end of the tunnel as it could be the light belonging to an oncoming train. Light for some is not always a good thing. It can be blinding, its brightness can be overbearing and […]

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What Reward?

If you open box A you win the special star prize. If you open box B you get the booby prize. Booby prize. Back in the day I took that phrase for what it meant – this is the worst ‘prize’ you could attain. You didn’t want the booby prize. It was so bad that […]

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At The Start – At The End

There are different thigns to like about races. My friend is doing a triathlon and when he talks about the training he does for it, I am in awe of him. I am also in awe of his wife and daughter. They are there for him at the start of the race and they are […]

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