Salty Cucumber

Poetry – Pattern Poem – 140 Words 137 Words. Edited from an Original Post on: Scribblers Forum – Flash Poesy 282 Image by Kevin Mc Loughlin from Pixabay

The Message

Poetry – 200 Words The MessageFrom my fragile grasp both taken,Dreams and aspiration,A frozen life without another,Choices made and I’m forsaken. A thin jacket and woolly jumper,Wrap my body’s senses duller,I lace-up boots and strut.Leaving…

A Leap Backward

Short Story – 3,650 Words An afternoon walk through the park on the outskirts of the city was Emmy’s daily mindfulness exercise. This parkland was not the usual provincial, town-planned green space. There were no…

Flash Fiction Poetry: The Recipe. May

A flash fiction poetry writing post composed for May. This piece is a poem, of no more than twenty-five lines, using the following words: verdant, open, silence, richness, compassion, and recipe. The Recipe The recipe,I…

Short Story Writing: Lonely Adventure.

An entry for a two-thousand word short story writing competition organised by Writers & Artists in February. This piece is a short story about an elderly lady leaving home for the first time in months…

Flash Fiction Writing: Borscht. March #1

A fifty-word flash fiction writing post composed for March. This piece is a brief story about war, cold, hunger, renewed friendships, and soup. Borchst Cruel weather. Despite modern material ingenuity, once cold seeps in, harder…

An Update to End All Updates

Happy New Year, Everyone! There are always updates, aren’t there? Often around this time of year too, when people realise they’ve been slacking for the last twelve months, since their last post. For consistency, I’m…