Last night my eldest child, Helen, starting making her own poetry book. She’s always been inspired by books and from time to time I find bits of A4 paper, folded in half with stories written in them and pictures drawn on the pages. Yesterday, however, she was inspired to write a poem.
This short story was inspired by The Prompt creative writing linky hosted by the Mumturnedmom blog. The prompt word on this occasion was ‘solitary’ (click on the badge below for more). Regular readers and followers of my twitter feed will know that I found myself on Channel 4 news earlier this week (see here). When
This is a short story inspired by The Prompt (#theprompt) creative writing linky hosted by the Mumturnedmom blog. The prompt word was celebration. Click on the badge at the end to see what other bloggers have been writing about. Celebrating a new arrival He opened the door and barged it open with his carrier bags
This post was inspired by #theprompt creative writing linky hosted by the Mum Turned Mom blog. The prompt word on this occasion was ‘family’. I have also been inspired by a new blog I have discovered called Two Sentence Short Stories, so have written something in this manner. I hope you like it.
The other day I was going through some manuscripts I wrote years ago. The story below was among them. It is loosely based on an experience I had when I was a local news reporter in my early twenties. I was working during the quiet period between Christmas and New Year and only the one
