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    Unforgiven
    Unforgiven
    Unforgiven
    Ebook36 pages33 minutes

    Unforgiven

    By Anne Grange

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    A short story by Alan Botham...
    Charlie Easton is an ex-footballer, bitter that his career didn’t go the way he wanted, and unable to appreciate the good things in his life.
    When disaster strikes, his life implodes around him.
    Can he find the strength to do the right thing?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnne Grange
    Release dateMay 16, 2018
    ISBN9780463863589
    Unforgiven
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    Anne Grange

    At school, I’d get into trouble for “not listening”, but I was actually lost in my imagination, fed by weekly trips to the library. My GCSE English coursework folder was filled to bursting with enthusiastically written essays and stories. My writing has always been inspired by my love of music. As a sixth former, I listened to ‘Outside Inside’ by the Levellers and Paul appeared in my head: a vegan who inherits his uncle’s butcher’s van. I went to university in Sheffield to study English Literature, and I concentrated on having fun for a few years. But the characters from my novel were demanding to be written about, coming to life. Life kept intervening, but I began working hard, writing in my spare time. In 2010, I graduated from the Writing MA at Sheffield Hallam University. I had finally finished my first novel, ‘Outside Inside’. A few edits later, and here it is! I left my full time job in 2013 to launch a freelance writing business, Wild Rosemary Writing Services, and I love helping people to tell their stories. I still live in Sheffield, and I love it. In the summer, you’ll find me at music festivals, volunteering for Oxfam.

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      Unforgiven - Anne Grange

      Unforgiven

      A short story by Alan Botham

      First Published in 2018 by Alan Botham

      Written by Alan Botham

      Editing by Anne Grange Editing

      Text Copyright © Alan Botham 2018

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author.

      Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places, events and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      UNFORGIVEN

      By Alan Botham

      Chopinwood was waking up to a beaming summer’s day. A small town, with no historical treasures or surprises for tourists, it nestled on the border of middle England and the North.

      Previously supporting a mixture of farming and mining, the community was now dependent on light and service industries which had spawned a number of warehouse and factory estates on the outskirts of town.

      Charlie Easton worked in one of these units. Chopinwood had no claim to fame, but he was the closest the town got to notoriety. Charlie had played as a professional in the top football league, sometime in the early 1980s. Now, no one remembered the exact details, only the chaotic events that Charlie had served up when he played. Blending frequent injuries with an aggressive approach on the field and unprofessional conduct off it, Charlie had never been short of headlines. His behaviour had often supplied the tabloids with news fodder to sell papers.

      He’d had the pedigree to be an international candidate, with decent ball skills and a ferocious tackling ability. Unfortunately, his injuries and continual habit of locking horns with management saw him released after just two seasons. From this point, his fall from grace never reversed and it was a steady descent down the divisions, crash-landing into a coaching job for a non-league outfit before his involvement in football finished altogether.

      Charlie was a large man with a big presence. He was around six feet tall and now sported a beard. In his playing days, he had been quite athletic but his frame had expanded some distance, with the excess weight mainly settling around his stomach. He lumbered around, trying to retain his quick, aggressive stride, although his injuries had slowed him somewhat.

      He projected an arrogant figure that many of the town’s inhabitants endeavoured to avoid. His overtures and offers to coach the youth teams at the community centre were largely ignored. Although his time as a professional footballer earned him a somewhat muted admiration from the male population, his rude, antagonistic behaviour and lack of manners

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