Alice Penfold

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“Never Too Late” by Alice Penfold

Submitted to Contest #40

I’d arrived early, although I knew you would be late. Some things never change. It was never intentional; you had a strained relationship with time, always losing track of it, never allowing enough of it to get from one place to another, then arriving apologetically a few minutes after you were supposed to.Still, ‘Cuppa and Chatter’ was a pleasant enough place to wait. It was a small, independent coffee shop, perched on the corner of our childhood high street in sleepy Somerset. My suggestion, after hours spent researching the near-identical...

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I am a London-based teacher and writer. I particularly enjoy writing young adult fiction and short stories and am always getting distracted from real life as I conjure up possible plots in my head.