Asking, Talking, Listening?

Asking. Talking. Listening?

‘I asked about her work, her band, her boyfriend and that dodgy knee she talked about the last time we met.’

‘I told her about work, the band, you and she remembered about my dodgy knee. We had a good chat.’

‘And what’s she been doing?’

‘Oh! She didn’t say.’


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Written by Sean Hodgson

Sean Hodgson lives in Oxfordshire, with a garden that has three plastic pink pigeons because this is Faringdon, Oxfordshire. He used to be a police officer but since getting better he generally keeps quiet about that.





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