Why Go Through All This?

A 1,900 word short story

Patsy Collins
ILLUMINATION
Published in
8 min readMay 7, 2024

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Photo by Brigitte Tohm on Unsplash

The speed dating style event at work had seemed quite a good idea when Jemma’s colleague, Ralf, suggested they include it in the team-building activities they were co-ordinating.

“Five minutes conversation with colleagues they don’t see much of will help people get to know each other,” he’d said.

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Patsy Collins
ILLUMINATION

Author, gardener, photographer, cake eater and campervanner from the south coast of England.