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• Author: Violet Fenn
• Language: English
• Genre: Alternative History
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Harrington Street Hoolies
It’s amazing how much you see around you in the split second after your
brain realises you’re about to die. As I flew through the air, I wondered
whether I’d make a mess when I hit the ground. My cat, Grimm, was sitting
on the steps of the fire escape, a vaguely curious expression on his face. A
pair of magpies chattered in surprise from the roof of a nearby building and
a pigeon did an emergency stop in mid-air, veering away sharply in order to
avoid being taken down with me. I noticed that a window on the second
floor of my block had a cracked pane. I was just wondering how long it
would take for the landlords to get round to fixing it, when everything went
black.

* * *
The day had been pleasant, as these things go. The sun was shining and
business had been brisk in Flora’s, the small, backstreet cafe I’d owned and
run for the last two years. Harrington Street isn’t really a through route to
anywhere in particular—it sits a block back from the far more popular
Mathew Street with its bars and music—and, unless you’re local, you’d
probably never know Flora’s even existed. It had long been popular with
students and local shop workers, but by the time I’d gone to look at it with
my dad in tow, it had been boarded up for six months and its charm was
definitely on the faded side. I’d never run a cafe before I opened Flora’s,
but I’d been a waitress at a coffee shop in the Bluecoat whilst I was at
university. I’d figured it was probably a bit like that, just with more
paperwork. And I’d inherited some money from a great aunt I’d never even
known—the best kind of inheritance, the sort that arrives out of the blue
with no grief-laden weirdness attached to it. So it had seemed fated when a
‘To Let’ sign had appeared on the cafe—especially when I discovered the
lease came complete with a flat on the top floor of the building. I’d given
notice on my admin job in a small but very boring office, boxed up my
meagre belongings from the room in the shared house in Edge Hill that I’d
been desperate to get out of for the last three years and didn’t look back.

These days, Flora’s was the kind of cafe that sold proper coffee
alongside pastries from a nearby bakery. The bakery owners gave me a
good deal because I’d once briefly dated their daughter, before we jointly
decided that having a shared love of 70s music wasn’t enough to keep the
flame of romance alight. I’d managed a week running the cafe on my own
before dragging Izzy, my oldest—and most annoying—friend in to help.

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