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the mistakes we make
Ella stormed out of the house with her hair still wet from the shower and a half-eaten slice of toast wedged between her teeth. As she teetered down the path, fumbling to prevent the stack of folders...
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ghost story
A Christmas Ghost Story The Tradition – Part One It was late one Christmas eve. The little girl lay in bed listening to the old house sighing and groaning against the chill wind that buffeted it from...
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sickness
An Ode to Sick I’m very tired this morning due to being up most of the night with the youngest. There was much washing involved. Bleurgh. I wrote the above in my head while sitting in the dark by the...
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a letter
It was an icy January afternoon. The wind whipped Jane’s cheeks as she stood gazing out over the ocean, the letter clutched in her hand. The location was breathtaking. The winter sky brooded darkly...
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forgotten
Do you ever go through your files or notebooks (or wherever you keep your random bits of poetry/stories) and find something that you’ve completely forgotten writing? And then look at it and think,...
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friendship
When I saw that ‘The Prompt’ over at Mum turned Mom this week was ‘Friendship’ I remembered a short story I wrote on the subject a while back. Actually I must have written it a couple of years ago...
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writing picture books
I’m currently in the process of writing some picture books. I started writing them at different times and they’re at different stages of completion but this last week I’ve been working on all three of...
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A frisson
I’ve been feeling a bit creatively sluggish recently and in need of a new challenge to give me a bit of a kick up the bum. Luckily at exactly the right moment Nicola at Nikki Young Writes drew my...
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alphabet story
I enjoyed the ‘ten to one‘ writing challenge I did last week so when Nicola suggested doing another challenge this week I was up for it. This week’s it’s an ‘alphabet story’ where you write a story...
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my latest crush
I tend to get crushes – literary crushes – where I read a book and I think Oooh and I think Ohhhh and I think, I have to read more by this author! And I read more and I think Mmm, what a delicious...
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