Fiction Street is a heart-breaking short story of childhood from 1970s Liverpool as seen through the eyes of a child.
A little girl, Rebecca, is worried. She’s going to be late for school.
What she really wants to do is to take a shortcut through Fiction Street.
Nobody told her why, but all the children in the area are warned not to go through Fiction Street.
All she knows is that she’ll be in big trouble if she does and big trouble if she doesn’t.
Rebecca’s dad warned her that if she “ever went down Fiction Street and he found out he’d string me up from the lamppost and sell me ears to the butcher and he’d turn them into a stew and sell them to the old ladies to feed to their cats”
The punishment is severe and she doesn’t want to get fifty lines or the cane!
So she decides to make a fateful decision and turns the corner into Fiction Street.
Everything seems normal and she’s wondering what all the fuss was about when suddenly a van pulls along beside her and a strange man offers her a lot of money.
He just needs her go and get him something.
Trouble is, she doesn’t understand exactly what that something is.
She wants to help.
Good girls always do what adults tell them to do and Rebecca has always tried to be a very good girl.
But this strange man isn’t good. He is the very opposite of good. Fortunately, Rebecca has a narrow escape.
But there is still trouble ahead because when Rebecca tells her teacher what happened all hell breaks loose and Rebecca can’t help but feel to blame.
Rebecca’s world explodes into misunderstanding and confusion as her imagination brings her on a roller coaster ride.
You can read about how and why I wrote Fiction Street here.
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