The Department - A Crowd-Written Story

The Story

Pet departments always had that same smell, that mixture of dog biscuits, rabbit droppings and fish food; even this one, which didn't even have any live animals. And why was fish food made from fish? She imagined walking through the food department browsing 'Arm Flakes with Extra Fingernails' and 'Human Brain Sticks for a Shinier Coat'.

Naomi looked down at her clean shirt and pressed trousers, wondering if she could get another day's wear out of them. Perhaps she could have stretched the trousers until the end of the week, if she hadn't come into this shop. She felt unclean just walking through the doors.

From her science lessons back in school she remembered that 'All smells are particulate'. This meant that if her clothes smelt of rabbit droppings, it was because they had a microscopic coating of that actual substance on the surface. Home was just around the...

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book on site Thanks for getting in touch. Is your book listed on Amazon?	Rosen Trevithick 20.09.2017 at 11:18
book on site I don't have a asin but I do have a isbn as well as a control number. When i tried imputing these numbers, My...	newarthor2017 19.09.2017 at 21:01
Never know WHAT you'll find .................. You should come and visit 'our charity shop' in Huyton (Merseyside). You can sit there with a cuppa and...	Olliebeak 18.09.2017 at 22:36
I just love this one! As the grandmother of a two delightful girls - one aged 19 and one aged 9 - I just fell about laughing at this...	Olliebeak 18.09.2017 at 22:34
Can't post promotion because book is linked to another account? Hi, I'm trying to set up a promotion but when I try to add my book, it's saying it belongs to another...	Bookworm11620 14.09.2017 at 12:19
Where can I buy this book It's a drabble - i.e. a 100-word self-contained short story.	Rosen Trevithick 12.09.2017 at 12:29

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