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Eyes Up! #writephoto #flash
Sue’s prompt this week is Candice Charming pushed Thomas Reedy back into line. This Year Four were undoubtedly the worst year yet. ‘Mandy, leave Gerry alone.’ She caught her colleague, Millie Stammler’s smile and feigned a heart attack. ‘So what … Continue reading
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Life In All Its Forms #covers
In 2016 I launched a book of 30 short stories based around a challenge I undertook to write 30 stories in November 2015. I called it Life, In A Grain Of Sand after one of the stories but also reflecting … Continue reading
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Singapore Part 2: nature and Nationhood
What do National Celebrations tell you about a country? Its confidence? Its personality? There is a danger in stereotyping. In the UK we don’t do National Days. Partly our aggrandizing past has embedded an embarrassment that makes such an event … Continue reading
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Cambodia Day 6: Of Palaces, Picnics and Museum Pieces
Today was sweltering. An early start to the Royal Palace was decreed. If Buckingham Palace and a Swiss Chalet hybridised and moved to Essex this is what you might get. This though is French, built in the 1880s when under … Continue reading
Consequences #writephoto #shortstory
Sue Vincent’s #writephoto prompt this week are two pictures Inside Out Consequences It takes one careless slip and one coincidence to threaten humanity, so fragile is our existence. D minus two: Albert Cockerill banged the dashboard of his van. Out of … Continue reading
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Realising Your Limits #parenting
March 2009 Sophie cleared the plates. Mark, her son, back from university for Easter didn’t help. In her head she told him what she thought. ‘So any plans for the summer?’ ‘Huh?’ He was already at his phone. ‘What? Yeah. … Continue reading
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The Perfect Delivery #microcosms #shortstory
This was written for Microcosms 69 using the prompt of character: Postman/mailman; place: castle; genre: romance. ‘A new van?’ Marge walked round her son, Herbies’ shiny new vehicle. It was very red and full of fancy equipment. ‘Management have been pushing for this, ever … Continue reading
