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Brass Ep. 78
“You two enjoy a joke then,” observed Fuen.
“We laugh at everything,” sighed Copper. Iron mewed.
“Keep laughing,” remarked Fuen. “A sense of humour is so often all we have left.”
“I hadn’t thought of it like that,” pondered Copper.
“Humour holds the universe together,” said Fuen. “Along with duct tape, of course.”
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Brass Ep. 77
Copper reached out of the car window and swiped a bottle of wine up from the sand. She turned it over in her hands. “I remember moments with a lady,” she sighed. “she loved a bottle of wine.”
“Who’s the lady?” asked Fuen.
“I don’t know anymore,” lamented Copper. “She used to believe in giving wine first aid though. She used to say, ‘Open the bottle to allow it to breathe. If it doesn’t look like it’s breathing, give it mouth-to-mouth.’”
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Brass Ep. 76
Copper rummaged through the glovebox then handed Fuen a newspaper article about the vineyard. Fuen scanned down the page. The article said not only did they create some of this countries finest wines, but they also sold grapes for medical research.
“They created an anti-diuretic with their wine to help with incontinence,” pointed out Copper. “Got it branded as well. Pinot More.”
Iron snorted.
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Brass Ep. 75
Copper spotted the sign for Vale Vineyards. “We’re nearly at Brass.”
“Know this place?” asked Fuen.
“I’d heard of it,” replied Copper. “The owner had a dog trained to sniff wine, checking its quality.”
“I see,” pondered Fuen. “So it was a Bordeaux collie.”
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Brass Ep. 74
Iron re-took the driver’s seat. “Head west,” said Fuen. “My friends waiting on the shores of the peninsula. She’ll get us off this island.”
Copper hesitated at the door. “If what you said is true,” she sighed, “were merely dreams.”
“There’s nothing mere about dreams,” replied Fuen.
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Brass Ep. 73
“Are we part of that land?” asked Copper.
“No,” replied Fuen. “Well, yes… Maybe. Here’s the thing. Every so often, islands appear off the coast. They pop up, filled with life, then deteriorate and sink into the ocean. Nothing from these lands ever makes it to the mainland. A friend and I just wanted to see what was on one of those islands.”
“Can you stop our land deteriorating?” asked Copper.
“The loss of these islands seems unstoppable,” sighed Fuen. “Like the tides, time or humans posting pointless Facebook updates.”
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By Jessica
Vermin loved the mattress. The mattress was warm, dark, sticky, plenty of dripping things for food. But Vermin wanted more. Vermin had dreams.
He felt more than saw the two swaying shadows fall across the landscape he wanted so desperately to conquer. Desperately, he broke out of the dark, he would have his prize!
Then the shadows fell, hard, and Vermin was pushed back. “One day,” Vermin cursed, “I will make it.” If the mattress could disagree it would, but it couldn’t. And that was just fine with Vermin.
This week’s Sunday collab was written by Jessica of The writing life of Jessica Halsey. A prolific writer and servant to two kitty cats. Cheers for the spookems, Jessica!
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Brass Ep. 72
Fuen pecked around in the boot and tossed out a spare fuse to Iron. “Why were you looking for us?” asked Copper.
“I wanted to see if anyone lived on this island,” sighed Fuen. “Then got myself stuck here.”
“Where did you come from?” asked Copper.
“A place between the world of the living and the lands of the dead. Where hopes, ideas and dreams live until they’re forgotten,” replied Fuen. “We’re hoping the Brits forget about Brexit sometime soon. Bad ideas that big really stink up the place.”
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Brass Ep. 71
“You don’t look like a machine,” noted Copper.
“I’m not,” replied the bird, hopping onto the car. “I’m Fuen, a bird spirit of sorts. Is thing this still working?”
Iron pulled out a burnt fuse. “Aha, ruddy thing,” said Fuen.
“It’s not the fuses fault,” remarked Copper. “It just couldn’t resist.”
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Brass Ep. 70
The corvid hopped along the road towards them. The closer it got the less threatening it seemed. Its curious gait was anything but threatening.
“Bugger me,” grumbled the bird as it reached them. “This place is a sod to get around.”
Copper and Iron looked to each other. Then at the bird. “I lost you both when the city collapsed,” said the bird. “Been trying to catch you since. You’ve been harder to find than a sniff of common sense is in a British government.”
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Little Fears 