Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

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A story in 50 words

"Stay back a moment Trudy," her teacher’s voice stopped short the little girl’s dash for the door as bells knelled classes to a close. "Is everything ok at home dear?" Ms. Donnelly

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Just after I finished college and was studying for finals, my family sold our council house, upped sticks, and moved from suburbia to inner city Dublin where we bought a grocery shop with accommodation

Money didn’t mean much to me when I was a kid, that is to say, it wouldn’t have made my situation any better. We yo-yoed between well-off and dirt poor as often as my father lost one job and found another

When I was 17 I played in a punk band called ‘Of Xerox’ with three of my friends. We became famous around the scene in Dublin, partly because we were an all-female band but mainly because The Virgin prunes

Fido kicked his tiny legs furiously while his teeth tore at the fabric. If he tired he was a goner. His master had shoved him in a bag and thrown him in the river. A new game he thought as he broke free,

Each day come 5 o’clock, as if forgetting the many disheartening days that had gone before, the two kids set out hand in hand for the bus stop to meet their mother from work. There they wait, a little

Trudy walked swiftly home from school, doing her best to avoid the puddles and mind her good shoes. They’d cost eleven shillings and sixpence, as her mother never tired of telling her, adding " I’m

The sun rises as the two, man and boy hike the steep hillside, each step forward leaving behind an impression in the morning dew. They walk side by side, but apart. The man's footfall is soft but his stride

Dick's fitness for candidacy in the upcoming election was agreed upon unanimously by the committee. Corrupt, unscrupulous, and shifty, Dick Schmuck had all of the requisite attributes and qualities to

WARNING! TURN BACK! Twee cat story ahead... Harold had been looking after Hetty since he was a kitten, in fact as long as he could remember. They rubbed along pretty well together with an arrangement that

Any advance on 80,00? bellowed the auctioneer and with a crash of the gavel Luke's house was gone; inherited from his mother, repossessed by the bank to cover his ever-mounting debts. Looking up he was

'I am a hero, a warrior," he exclaimed. "A worthy opponent for any man." Whereupon his wife's dulcet tones cut short his reverie. "Wilbur," she screeched, "get down here now

Nothing in Bob's life ever went according to plan. Desperately depressed he tried to end it by throwing himself off the balcony of his apartment, only to land on a bouncy castle which had been placed in