Anyone who reads this blog will know I have something of a fondness for horror. Therefore it won’t come as a surprise to learn that I’m working on a short story for an anthology competition in the Victorian horror vein! Why am I doing this? Well, I want to submit to the second volume of […]
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#FridayFlash – 2:34am
She lay in bed, staring at the ceiling. She’d counted the cracks in the plaster too many times to remember, and the next step would be to name them. She rolled over and looked at the clock. The glowing green digits spelled out ‘2.34’. She growled, and hauled herself out of bed. I’m awake, so […]
Landscape and Writing
I had a brief visit to London over the Bank Holiday weekend, and ended up at the British Library for their Writing Britain exhibition. Now, I lived in London for seven years, and it is to my eternal shame that I only visited the British Library twice. It’s often easy to overlook the British Library […]
End of my photo prompts
Yesterday marked something of the end of an era for this blog, though I don’t know if anyone realises. For the past one hundred weeks I’ve been posting photographic writing prompts every Monday, offering them up as a means of generating inspiration for other writers. All of the photographs have been my own work, too. […]
Photo Prompt 100
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
#FridayFlash – Shadowburn
The red-haired woman opened her eyes and screamed. Thick rope looped around her body, binding her to a stake on the village green. Her scream grew louder as consciousness returned. “Ah, it’s awake.” The village elders sat on large chairs beneath the shade of a marquee. Villagers crammed behind them, jostling for the best position […]
