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    Short Stories for Older Children
    Short Stories for Older Children
    Short Stories for Older Children
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    Short Stories for Older Children

    By Dandi Palmer

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    It is easy to think that the reality we know is the only one. But the galaxy is immense and full of other possibilities. There are also dimensions where existence is not tangible for its inhabitants.
    We would call them ghosts.
    With illustrations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDodo Books
    Release dateSep 3, 2018
    ISBN9780463537398
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    Dandi Palmer

    An illustrator for over thirty years, Dandi Palmer has been commissioned by the Radio Times, Prima, UNESCO, BBC Focus, and many more publications. www.dandipal.uk has a selection of picture books as well as samples of other illustrations and portfolio of published work.The illustrator also writes science fiction, fiction, and supernatural/fantasy novels for adults under the name of Jane Palmer.

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      Short Stories for Older Children - Dandi Palmer

      Short Stories

      for

      Older Children

      by

      Dandi Palmer

      Dodo Books

      Copyright © Dandi Palmer 2018

      This is a work of fiction

      and any resemblance to persons

      living or dead is purely coincidental.

      Stories

      Face in the Wallpaper

      Elfin mischief

      Friends from Mars

      Dangerous secrets

      Pied Piper

      Lost children or benefactors’ Nemesis

      Rooftop Phantom

      A mechanoid’s memories

      Jack of Spades

      The true nature of existence

      Tomb in the Trees

      Shadows of ancestors

      Trip of a Lifetime

      Worlds beyond imagination

      The Last Garden

      Flowers in a devastated world

      Dragons Down Below

      Electric weed

      The Face in the Wallpaper

      Many people experience that cold, clammy moment when they inexplicably glimpse something extraordinary in an everyday household item.

      In an odd shaft of light, a kettle can be transformed into a dangerous alien weapon, and the silhouette of a harmless pot plant resemble a triffid.

      Laurence was a sensible seven-year-old. Dylan, his older brother, was the one troubled by teenage hormones, which made him intense one moment and screech at some imagined slight the next.

      But Laurence could also peer into that mysterious dimension beyond reality. As well as able to see the extraordinary in mundane items, he knew his future. He would never be bothered by acne and appalling school reports.

      This gave the seven-year-old a calm demeanour which worried his parents. On one hand they were proud and relieved to have at least one son who was polite and caused no trouble. On the other, for a boy of his age, it didn’t seem natural. Laurence kept his bedroom tidy, went to bed when he should do, and always ate his vegetables... There had to be something wrong with him, but why complain when the other son was more than enough to cope with?

      During an unguarded moment it had crossed the mind of Martin, Laurence's father, that his mother had been unfaithful with an alien life form. But that was ridiculous, as he would have been first to admit, especially as Martin was the one who had an uncle with similar personality traits. The DNA that explained Laurence’s behaviour probably came from his side of the family.

      Uncle Marmaduke had been an odd one; obsessively tidy, immaculately mannered, and mad as a March hare.

      His favourite pastimes were painting the outside walls of the family home in patchwork colours and, after the local council condemned it as an eyesore and he was obliged to paint them magnolia, he took to topiary. The shapes of huge teddy bears began to appear in the local hedgerows and bushes of untidy gardens.

      No one complained. Most people thought it cheered up the neighbourhood, but having to admit that he was related to Uncle Marmaduke did have its uncomfortable moments. Martin could only hope that Laurence didn’t develop these eccentric traits and become the resident oddball.

      Perhaps some-father-to-son interaction would divert the seven-year-old’s attention to more boyish activities before it occurred to him to paint the school railings fluorescent orange, or a landing pad for UFOs in the school playground.

      So Martin suggested that they change the wallpaper in Laurence's bedroom. At that moment its friendly ducks and fluffy bunnies were more suited to a nursery. Most seven-year-olds would have protested about it by now, but Laurence needed to be persuaded to consider something more Star Wars... Jedi knights and Death Stars etcetera - though probably not Ewoks.

      Being a polite, ready-to-please child, Laurence acquiesced to satisfy his father, though insisted on something more decorative, if not a little weird. His choice of wallpaper was full of leaves and tendrils. It was very green and glowed eerily

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