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    24 Hours
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    24 Hours

    By Belinda Bennett

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    It is 1988 and the Pet Shop Boys have just topped the UK charts with 'Heart'. We are a whole two weeks away from Whitney Houston achieving a similar feat in the U.S. with the breathtaking 'Where Do Broken Hearts Go?'. Ronald Reagan is the President of the United States of America and the most kick-ass video game on the market is Carrier Command. The one pound note is no longer legal tender in the U.K. and there’s talk of Europe’s tallest skyscraper being built in Canary Wharf.

    Linda Grace has spent three decades yearning to turn back the clock - to the year of acid washed jeans and the very first series of Red Dwarf. Now she is there. She has journeyed from 2018 to 1988 to bring her best friend, Josh, back from the dead. Haunted by a recurring dream, she is convinced it is possible.

    Linda has been chosen by a bunch of unlikely inventors to be a guinea pig for pioneering research. But can a university project really send her back to 1988, or is it all in her imagination?

    Sci-fi meets urban mystery in this weird and wonderful tale, inspired in part by fact and in part by a real-life dream. A heartwarming, occasionally funny short story for adult readers of all ages.

    This is an 11,000 word short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBelinda Bennett
    Release dateMar 9, 2019
    ISBN9780463864104
    24 Hours
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    Belinda Bennett

    Belinda Bennett started writing fiction at primary school. Always passionate about creative writing, her talents were diverted to journalism in her late teens after both her parents died.She was diagnosed with HER2+ inflammatory breast cancer on January 23, 2020. Currently undergoing chemotherapy and targeted therapies, she is hoping to undergo surgery later this year.A fierce supporter of the underdog, Belinda supports causes that help the homeless and those whose lives have been blighted by addiction.Belinda is a former journalist, newspaper editor and freelance copywriter. She lives by the sea on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.

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      24 Hours - Belinda Bennett

      24 Hours

      Belinda Bennett

      Copyright © Belinda Bennett

      Published by BB Digital, March 2019

      All rights reserved by the author. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written consent of the publisher, except where permitted by law.

      24 Hours is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

      This book uses British spellings and punctuation throughout.

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      About This Book

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      Chapter One

      A visit to Victoria Coach Station isn’t on my bucket list. Let’s get that clear. Neither is mingling with hoards of lost-looking day-trippers and those bogged down by the daily grind in Westminster. But, here I am - and thirty years late. Too bad if I’m in a rush.

      Nobody appears to notice that I look out of place, and I can’t quite fathom it. I feel out place; a bit like E.T. auditioning to be in a beauty pageant. Two hours ago, I envisaged being mobbed by complete strangers - all vying to paw at my heavily embroidered faux leather jacket and pose the question: Are you an alien? I am not, by the way.

      Now that I am actually here, meandering between distinctly art deco columns coated in god-awful turquoise-green paint, it’s all rather…normal. Except for the occasional padded shoulder and acid washed denim jeans, of course.

      Nobody will even know you are there, Giles, a sleek geek in a designer suit, assured me before pressing a wedge of crisp banknotes into my sweaty palm. And he was right. The buzz of this burgeoning metropolis they call London seems to thrive on anonymity.

      It is 1988, I have to keep telling myself. Right now, it is April and the Pet Shop Boys have just topped the charts with Heart. We are a whole two weeks away from Whitney Houston achieving a similar feat in the US with the breathtaking Where Do Broken Hearts Go? - quite ironic when I consider why I am here.

      Ronald Reagan is the President of the United States of America and the most kick-ass video game on the market is Carrier Command. Don’t remember that one. The one pound note is no longer legal tender, as of last month, and there’s talk of Europe’s tallest skyscraper being built somewhere in Canary Wharf.

      Commuters are out in force. It was the first thing I noticed, followed by a woman’s voice penetrating the whir of the masses, It’s been such a mild winter.

      How could I forget that? I break the pace of my stride. I have never been very good at remembering

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