This month sees the first ever flash fiction day and I am hurriedly submitting stories to various places – there doesn’t seem to be anything in Gloucestershire but over in Oxford they are running an event which I shall be reading at 🙂 The day is the idea of Calum Kerr and will take place […]
I was always in love with things that were beautiful and refined, I never could love normal women, they were too earthy, and no matter how I tried there was always some dark burning imperfection that nagged away at me. I found solace in lady boys for a while as their imperfections were little more […]
I always liked going on holiday to Wales, especially either end of the seasons, when the weather is wild and furious. The energy of nature pelting down on you, or freezing to solid stone around you. It was during one such holiday and time of exploration that I met the King of the Goths, Alaric […]
I have produced an audio book which I am selling to raise money to buy books for my little ones School Library (they get the profit). The disc contains The Little Book of Easter Poetry, The Little Chicken Song and the story Ester Rabbit – there is even me playing the recorder 🙂 It costs […]
Well we are in – no internet or carpet or anything and in truth we are still moving stuff as well but we have the keys and I am starting to set up the library/writing area which is fun 🙂 In the long run I hope to have a studio/den in the attic – we […]
Yep it’s that time of year again! I’ve been working heavily on my kid lit stuff (probably due to having a baby this year!) so haven’t done as much as I had hoped with my flash fiction this year boo hiss though I have been going a long to an open mic spoken word thing […]
Jane awake her throat was soar, ‘Mummy,’ she tried to say but couldn’t. ‘It’s ok baby your in hospital remember, you’ve just had your tonsils out so your throat will be a bit swollen.’ Her Mother’s hand stroked her gently she was safe. ‘Herby,’ she whispered. ‘Here’s Herby darling, who’s a little Herby hedgehog,’ her […]
Selorian: His memories were like the snowflakes. They formed, floated down to him, and dissipated when he tried to hold on to them. #storystarters Selorian: The snake wrapped around his leg and beat him with it’s whip-like tail. He frantically kicked, trying to dislodge it. #storystarters Selorian: The radio blared to life at precisely 8am, […]
The night was damp, not raining but a haze lit by the amber street lamps making everything glow a sickly yellow whilst moisture penetrated through layers of clothing giving that chill dankness. Â Amelia stood at the bus stop a ladder in her tights and lipstick smeared, mascara rims were growing around her smudged eyeshadow, it […]
By the Severn turns of Hell how did I end up here? There is no way I can survive this, just no way, I’m gripping a slimy moss covered rock with precarious footing at the top of a white water channel with a rather nasty drop below into a plunge pull of jagged rocks! Eeek […]