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Be Anxious for Nothing — Chapter One

Bernard is an angel with a list of thirteen people whose lives have quietly organised themselves around fear, and an instruction: visit each one, drain the anxiety out of them, and collect it in a jar. Bernard is doing his best. Bernard is not, on balance, very good at this.

This is the first visit — Margaret, a failing Etsy shop, and a knock at the door at exactly the wrong moment — plus the short “Before we begin”. About 8,500 words, 61 pages at A5, set to read easily on a phone.

Yours to keep and free to pass on, complete and unaltered. By J.C. Love.