I was reminded of this great record from the 70s recently, which was the inspiration for today's short story. I had finally fled from an abusive relationship, and against my better judgement allowed some friends to drag me off to a New Year’s Eve party at a hotel. My self-confidence was at rock bottom and …
Vanda
I used to be an Archer, and a friend challenged me to write a story incorporating Archery and Vampires. 😀 This was the result. I hope you like it. Vanda was hungry, very hungry. This wasn’t surprising as she hadn’t hunted for days, and even that had come close to being a disaster. Normally, as …
Sustenance
My beautiful Labrador had been my constant companion since he was a puppy, but things changed when Greg moved in as my lodger. The big, old house that had been my family home was too expensive to maintain on my own, but with six bedrooms was perfect as a bed and breakfast or for …
How to self-publish
For those of you who enjoyed my previous post 'How to become an author' I thought you might find this follow-up useful: Now that I have told you everything there is to know about being a writer I thought it was time to improve your knowledge of self- publishing. 😀 • You already have your beautifully …
Porridge, Nuclear and Pickaxe
An interesting writing challenge is to incorporate Random Words into a short story. In this case the words were Porridge, Nuclear and pickaxe. Even though it had been brewing for years, when the nuclear attack happened it was not as expected. Social media was rife with rumours but there was little on the TV news. Most …
Mary Poppins and other words
I love writing challenges and this was a fun one for my 5 Random words series. The words I was given to incorporate into a story were; Supernatural, Crime, Tulips, Mary Poppins and Jelly babies. It was finally Spring and the daffodils and tulips were raising their smiling faces to the heart-warming sun. After all the …
Book Beasts
There are millions of books available so to get noticed authors rely on positive reviews from readers, and publicity from bloggers. I am lucky enough to have such support so this post is by way of a thank you to a lady who joked about her two dogs being featured. Take a bow boys. 😀 …
