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W-Wh
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! – What? – What what? – I can’t understand you – Why? – You keep breaking up – Where are you? You sound like you’re in a cave – Where am I? Is that what you said? – Where. Are. You? – Continue reading
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R-Rocks
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! I’m from an island. And we used to refer to being “on the rock” or wanting a trip to “get off the rock” from time to time. Island life can be wonderful. Being that close to the sea all year round? What’s Continue reading
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Z-Zig Zag
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Zig, Zag. Zigzagzigzagzigzag. His head was spinning. He’d got home rather the worse for wear, zigzagging on his route so that he had probably taken longer to get there than he would have ordinarily. Throwing himself onto his bed, or rather, falling Continue reading
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Random Words
The Podcast this week was a bit of a one-off, all about words. I talked with my wonderful friend Fiona about words and the topics that came out of them, and here, as promised in the podcast, are some extra details related to what we talked about. Draught and Draft. The first meaning a gust Continue reading
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N-Novella
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! The following extract comes from my novella A Far, Far Better Thing. It is a trilogy in one novel following three generations of women and it plays with literary genres. A Far, Far Better Thing ebook A Far, Far Better Thing Paper Continue reading
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K-Knock
A very short story. All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet. Knock. Who’s there? Knock. I can hear you saying Knock. Who’s there? Knock, Knock. Yes, OK, I already asked “Who’s there?” Knock, Knock, Knock. She called out, No, you’re only supposed to say it twice, remember? You’re daft, Continue reading
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P-Perhaps
A Very Short Story All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Perhaps it would be today. The eternal optimist, she woke up every morning thinking… Perhaps. It was a good way to wake up, a positive way, as if every day were a new leaf of the book that Continue reading
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T- Tomorrow
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Remember Little Orphan Annie? I only mention it because I remember playing one of the orphans as a child with the local amateur dramatics association. Annie is the story of a plucky little orphan girl who gets picked by mistake to be Continue reading
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X-Xylophone
A very short story. All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! I was born among the green and the brown. And sometimes, from beneath my mother’s boughs, I saw the blue. She named me Rose. I grew, little by little, as every living thing does, putting out feelers to Continue reading
Espanglisher 