Wafted Back to My Birthday Party in Paradise ; the Derby Telegraph Is Inviting Readers to Submit Short Stories for Publication. Here Is Indian Summer, by Anne Johns, a University of Derby Creative Writing Student.

Derby Evening Telegraph › November 26, 2010

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"WHAT'S that mean, Mum?" "What does what mean?" "That sign - look, there, with the snakes on."

Concentrating as I was on driving on the right, I glanced across, didn't think, and translated from habit.

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Wafted Back to My Birthday Party in Paradise ; the Derby Telegraph Is Inviting Readers to Submit Short Stories for Publication. Here Is Indian Summer, by Anne Johns, a University of Derby Creative Writing Student.

"What, that one? Schlangenparadies? "Snakes' paradise."

Too late I realised what I had done.

"Ooh, wow, can we go? Canwe-can-we-can-we? Oh please Mum!" "You're not snakes - it's not for you! Hey, look, there's another of those posh ice cream parlours. I'm boiling!

How about one of those really huge scrumptious ices with chocolate flakes?" Idiot - do you really think six- and ...

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