Category Archives: creative writing

Bench Life #carrotranch

Posted on Jan 27, 2020 by

Trees don’t count in hours but in rings. Colin had fifty-two rings and had watched the bench for twenty. Tears and flowers at the start but the old woman stopped coming. Lovers, amateur artists, lost souls and found hearts. So … Continue reading →

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Career Options #writephoto

Posted on Jan 27, 2020 by

Cynthia Der Ella pulled off her rubber gloves and took a step back. Running a cleaning company in any magical realm was a challenge but in Fairyland… well, no one had yet written the book, had they? From composting bean … Continue reading →

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A Short History Of Catering Part XXIV #writephoto

Posted on Jan 19, 2020 by

This is a fairy tale of greed and love and hope and… oh all the usual. Nowhere wasn’t much of a place before a peripatetic alchemist and part-time prosthetic embalmer came by. This in and of itself was a surprise … Continue reading →

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The Many Apertures Of Garfield Popsicle

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 by

It was the sort of day when nothing happened. Not that Garfield Popsicle minded days when nothing happened. No, what he really didn’t like were those days when, having not happened, nothing continued to happen. Because that meant it was … Continue reading →

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The Lore Of Old Stone #writephoto

Posted on Jan 11, 2020 by

There is a theory that there are an infinite number of parallel worlds of which we are one. There are many such theories: our universe is constantly expanding; marmite is delicious; intelligent propelling pencils inhabit one of the other worlds; … Continue reading →

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Twenty -four Hours of Existential Angst In The Life Of A Bucket #blogbattle

Posted on Jan 9, 2020 by

It had been that sort of day when winds hushed themselves so as not to disturb the peace. Indeed Night, which had got into the habit of falling felt the urge to seep, so much so that Dusk, unaware of … Continue reading →

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Economic Realities #writephoto

Posted on Jan 4, 2020 by

Ariadne Grumble played a small if largely unheralded part in the rise and eventual fall of capitalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Without Ariadne’s commitment to creating shortages of inessentials the retail market is unlikely to have … Continue reading →

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