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Fiction

The Bells, The Bells

Kevin Robson drinks whiskey and sees things in a different way.

You know our pub The Careless Whisper? We had this singer on stage there last week. You know Fred? Fred was telling me she was a “terrible monstrosity” – him mouthing the words slow at me like a bloody goldfish, coz if you know me, you’ll be knowing I’m partially deaf in both me ears. He wrote down “FAT WALRUS CROAKING” on my deaf pad I always carry. I told him I was glad then that I was of the deaf persuasion. This made him laugh out loud.

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