call for acceptance (the me you see)
Holding the receiver, left ear burning to your echo I wonder why I never hear it […]
Tag Archives: story
River of Regret
River of Regret She sat by the open back door staring out at the glistening white but seeing only black. She had been sitting there in her night dress […]
And so the raindrops…
The purity of rain and all it’s cleansing possibilities rolls […]
Permission to Fail – Flash Fiction Photo Story
PERMISSION TO FAIL As I walked out into the crowded city streets I reflected on the interview. I shuddered at the recollection of the way the twenty-something interviewer had actually […]
Most Popular Poems…
So I have been having a little look at my stats and thought I would do a run down of the most popular pieces of poetry on my blog so […]
Writing for competitions
My recently completed writing challenge to create 30 pieces of writing over 30 days for entry into 30 writing competitions has taught me many things, but as the deadlines pass […]
Procrastination
I’m trying to read but the words begin to bounce playing truant on the page as I attempt to pin them down I shift a little to the left and […]
The Journey – Orange Prize/Grazia First Chapter Competition Entry
The following is a recent competition entry submitted for the Orange/Grazia Magazine First Chapter Writing Competition which closed earlier this month. The first paragraph of the story (shown here in bold itallics) […]
30/30/30 competition entry unveiled…
This piece is one of my 30/30/30 writing challenge competition entries.I submitted it for the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Writing Competition. The theme was ‘Rendezvous’ and was open […]
A Question of Rewriting the Script
If I could write my own script over Would I plot the epic Predict my unpredictable twist Would I showcase my protagonist Scribe dry witted dialogue as tonic laced with […]
