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Basically it's short stories, really short.

I'm Nick Warren and I try to waste five minutes each day on pointless creativity. Restless voices is the result.

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I'm a husband & father, and in my spare time I run Semantic, the UK's most relaxed web studio.

I try not to overthink things.

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Saturday
Sep122009

The topless beach did not live up to their adolescent imaginations. It was their first real sex lesson. Context is everything.

On our recent Greek Island holiday we were joined on the beach by three statuesque young ladies. They frolicked* in the sea for a while before coming back up the beach, sitting down, and removing their tops.

As a 15 year-old I would no doubt have dreamed of this scenario... in fact I'm pretty sure I bought dark sunglasses as a 15-year old for just such an occasion.

However, as an (almost) 40year old what I actually thought was "Bloody hell. Now I'll have to turn over so no one thinks I am staring at their breasts. All I want to do is read my bloody book in peace**."

Context is everything.

 

*Women only actually "frolic" in adolescent male imagination and soft-porn (these may actually be the same thing).
**The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Worth sticking with.

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