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The Sailor Who Ate Cucumber Sandwiches
by Bernard King   
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Category:  Drama
Publisher: Smashwords

Pages: 40

Copyright: 
May, 2011
ISBN-13: 9781458146779


Six short stories of which the titled one is true.

Six short stories of which The sailor Who Ate Cucumber Sandwiches is true.

A Rock Around The Clock looks at cancer, not from the person suffering, but those closest.

Dictionary of Deceit produces a word that does not exist, with deathly concequences.

You'll Like It, a story about bio, litereally rammed down your throat.

Age Concerned. Solving the fear of retirement in a spectacular fashion.

The Price of a Wife. A husband tries to buy his wife back from her lover.



Excerpt

Uncle Tom held a world record. Not an achievement he was proud of and had he been able, he would willingly have given what was left of his teeth to have avoided it.
But the warm and buzzing lull of an August evening, the comfort of his favourite chair before a table with a plate piled high with fresh cucumber sandwiches and his wife, Gwen, buzzing between the kitchen and their back lawn behind a large brown teapot caused world records, even the most unwelcome, to fade beneath serenity, contentment and total happiness.
The crisp crunch of the thinly sliced cucumber, the welcome taste of rich yellow butter (the last of their butter ration), and the soft touch of the moist fresh bread combined to whisk him rapidly through the gates of Heaven.
Cyril and Janet their closest friends, relaxing with him, also munched and sipped in what they knew could only be a short pause before it would start again.
As he reached for his second cup of tea, Uncle Tom saw with relief that his hand, for the first time for days, had stopped shaking.
A merchant seaman, a master chef, he had been in his galley when the torpedo hit the hospital ship.
He ignored the increasing slope of the deck, and the groans and creaks as the dying ship began to break, helping wounded troops fight their way through the hatches was his priority. But a pistol, pointing between his eyes could not be ignored, and reluctantly he left his wounded comrades and with the rest of the crew, who could still walk, obeyed the revolver waving officer and stepped slowly the life boat.
The sea beneath the lowering boat was death. The pain would not last long in the Arctic water they had been assured when they joined the convoys to Russia. Thirty seconds, not worth worrying about.


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