She sits in the corner booth, watching her friends on the dance floor, but all she can think of is the past. Sipping her drink, visions of the times they'd...
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{image source} He hadn't realised quite how long he'd been sitting there, twirling the bar mat, until a voice at his elbow pulled him from his thoughts. "You could nearly sail a...
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{image source} "It's too hard. I can't. I'm scared," I looked at her pleadingly, desperate for her to protect me from rapidly impending adulthood. "You CAN do it. Everyone feels like this,...
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{photo source} The swirling snow guaranteed only most foolhardy and desperate would venture forth today. I would be safe, I reassured myself as I carefully made my way to the waiting...
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Each Monday I'll post a challenge designed to push your comfort zone. A mix of stuff from the WIP and something new. Different styles. Different settings. Different lengths. The result...
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Each Monday I'll post a challenge designed to push your comfort zone. A mix of stuff from the WIP and something new. Different styles. Different settings. Different lengths. The result...
Continue readingI was chatting to the lovely Car the other day, and we were lamenting a lack of blogging mojo and how we sometimes go through slumps where it seems stale...
Continue readingThe airport was noisy and full of people rushing to be somewhere else. Occasionally the doors would open and a fresh wave of people would flood into the arrivals hall,...
Continue readingThe first time I saw him, the next day, he was yet to wake. Eyes closed, his face still. I felt his peace, and lay close by. I held his...
Continue readingThree weeks. It sounds like a lot, at the start. But then we blink, or we turn around, or we something, and it's over. Between the Christmas Eve stuff and...
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