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The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
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Tag Archives: death
An Extraordinary Era – Gone, Never Forgotten
Of course, I knew it would happen but now it has and it’s unreal. Surreal. The Queen, Our Queen, My Queen is dead. I’ve not known anything else than an Elizabethan era. And now it’s a retrospective. It’s quite easy … Continue reading
Posted in #writephoto, creative writing, humour, memories, miscellany
Tagged #writephoto, creative writing, death, duty, era defining, humour, renewal, short story, the queen
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That First Time
There’s a lot of difficult stuff in the news just now and normally I rise above it. But sometimes, amongst the flippancy and frivolity, there’s different emotion lurking and I was drawn to this piece about my first experiences of … Continue reading
Death And Taxes #writephoto #humour #creativewriting
This was written in response to this week’s #writephoto prompt ‘About bloody time.’ Jefferson Holepunch rubbed his arms, against the wind. ‘If I’d known it would be so long, I’d have worn a cardy.’ ‘I’M SORRY. UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES.’ ‘Seriously? I … Continue reading
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Tagged #writephoto, creative writing, death, humour
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Nanthology – I Am Death
Nanowrimo is a compelling challenge to write 50,000 words during November: that’s an average of 1667 words per day. My plan is to write a set of 30 short stories each 1667 words long instead. Each story comes from a prompt, a lot from fellow … Continue reading
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Tagged death, edwinas episodes, first person, Judy martin, NaNoWriMo, nanthology, noir, Sacha Black
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