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By Lucy Brighton I turn up the radio; it’s playing the latest music, what you prefer to call an ‘infernal racket’. I look over at you, but you don’t comment. The choice of music would usually cause an argument. But not today. I think of the previous times we’ve done this trip, every year since we got married and spent our honeymoon in the ‘state-of-the art’ static caravan. You dressed in skimpy bikinis as if we were on the Algarve, stretching your toes towards the horizon. “

I haven't done one of these for a while, but I thought new year and all that... Let's get the ink flowing with this easy breezy flash fiction prompt. The ides is you respond to the prompt with a story of no more than 500 words and post it in the comments here. We can all read and comment and share our stories! I am going dark for this prompt so join in if you like thriller/ horror/ suspense... Prompt The voicemail is only twelve seconds long. You don’t recognise the voice at