Ben Clews

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“Chicken Necks” by Ben Clews

Submitted to Contest #290

CHICKEN NECKS Boarding the bus after work to cross the lake home. Thankful for that, very, the day done. Up the aisle towards a vacant seat, flop into it. And my mind’s eye asked who it was two seats back? Yep, Christy. Oh Jesus, Christy. And so it became what I had to do. I had not seen her since high school. No, wrong, there was a night at the pub. When she should not have been there. The ultimate in bad timing. Remarkable timing. You see, Sinead had come to town to see me. I had been unwell from travel in Asia, back for four months. Sine...

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I was born in Adelaide in South Australia. I spent 35 years working in social policy for young people, the homeless and in the research area, and interspersed this with 14 years of teaching, copywriting and travel journalism in Athens, Singapore, Auckland, Seoul, and Tokyo. I have written four novels and two collections of short stories. I have self-published three of the novels and one collection of short stories at www.benclews.com; the others are not ready yet but close. I like literary prose and hope my efforts, fictional or not, can fit in that genre.