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She walks through the department store, Christmas music blaring out everywhere, heat radiating from people rushing past on last minute errands. Oh, no. Hot flush. She can feel the swelter rising inside her, pushing to break through her skin any moment now and sending her into a sodden mess with her clothes clinging onto her like the skin around a sausage. Freda is striding away in front of her, pushing her bulk through the crowds, arms full of glossy shopping bags, chattering away and paying no attention to her friend’s struggles. “You get what you pay for, Mary. You pay for quality, you get quality,Read More →

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This interview feature, written by me, was published in the Braduate Blog in April of this year.  Izhaar Ali – Entrepreneur Extraordinaire. What an inspirational guy! He wants to help other young people to find their way in life by doing what they love to do. Read his inspirational story here: The Braduate: Bradford Lad to China Success Story   Author’s comment: I hope that you find Ali’s story as inspirational as I do. He is an amazing young man! Please feel free to share your thoughts about this post by commenting below.  If you have an inspirational story to tell, why not take a look atRead More →

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“Stories to inspire, touch, celebrate and make us understand the extraordinary ordinary people among us.” Hi there, I’m Caren. Welcome to my little corner of web space! Look at this image – that’s me, getting on with my StoryBlog mission. My vision is to create a web magazine full of articles that you can relate to and that you want to return to over and over again. Ambitious? Hell, yeah!! I’ve been writing and editing my little heart out to deliver the goods. And, now, ta-da! There’s a huge selection of categories and themes to choose from and whether they are fictional or real life,Read More →