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Bump in the Night

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By Neil Barrett
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Neil Barrett · Follow 7 min read · -- What happens at half-past-dark… Neil Barrett “So… Tell me again what you do?” she asked. “I don’t think I heard you right.” I smiled back at her. I get that a lot, I guess. “I’m a ‘Bump’,” I told her. “As in, ‘a Bump in the night’.” “A bump in the night!” she scoffed, pretending to grab her purse and stand up. “Listen, if this is some kind of weird, sex thing, I’m really not interested.” “It’s not, I promise,” I assured her, smiling back.
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Family Ties

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By Neil Barrett
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The ties that bind: they constrain and they support… Neil Barrett · Follow Published in Pure Fiction · 10 min read · -- Photo by Good Funeral Guide, Unsplash Hello everyone, and on behalf of our family I’d like to thank you all for your expressions of support and for making the time to come to this service. My name is Peter Bedale. I’m Charles’s elder son. It falls to me to give this eulogy; this ‘hail and farewell’ to a life well-lived and a legacy well-built.
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Hitchhiker

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By Neil Barrett
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The ride of a lifetime… Neil Barrett · Follow Published in Pure Fiction · 7 min read · -- Photo by Atlas Green on Unsplash I wasn’t drunk when I left the bar, that’s for sure. Maybe a bit ‘buzzy’, you know: relaxed… Okay, okay. Relaxed but maudlin, if you must know. And why? Well, because I’d had three years to try and get to the bottom of it; three years to solve a puzzle eighteen years in the making. And I had been nowhere near an answer. What’s the problem?
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