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Showing posts with label 2020 Prompt #16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020 Prompt #16. Show all posts
Monday, 28 June 2021

'Recognising might on a plastic step' by R.J. Kinnarney

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  They all do it – unthinking, hand up, pat my knee and move on. Those tall boys. I’m not sure how they grow them so tall these days. Folk u...
Monday, 8 June 2020

'Good for Business' by Jan Simpson

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Funeral teas are good for my business.  Lots of cold, hungry mourners gasping for a cuppa and keen to snaffle my famous sausage rolls.  Ab...

'Muuuum, The Guinea Pigs are Hungry Again' by Tilly Greenland

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“ F eed me!” That’s what that squeal means. L ike, there isn’t a garden full of grass outside. A ll the Guinea pigs wanted to do was eat....

'Priestly Pleasures' by Linda Woodhams

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Father Grundy slides open the confessional window, just a fraction. Lockdown has interrupted relations with his flock for too many weeks; h...

'Killing Time' by Amanda Jones

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“At least she didn’t feel anything.” But, are you sure she didn’t?” “Course I am, that’s what they said.” “Did you definitely ask the...

' Becoming A Birdwatcher' by Brid McGinley

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Frank told his mother he needed binoculars, that he wanted to be a birdwatcher, and would also like a camera. Lately she hadn’t laughed much...

'Strangers When We Met' by Valerie Griffin

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Faces intrigue me and, although I don’t believe in love at first sight, I can be swayed by an interesting face. Likewise, the intoxicating...
Sunday, 7 June 2020

'Consequences' by Sue Morón

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Freddie wondered how this would be resolved; what would become of him? Lying prone in the hospital bed he mentally surveyed his body; coul...

'Space Trip' by Linda Irish

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Fixtures and fittings are not included but Pres says we can sort those out after. Lately he’s been saying that a lot. “Are you experienc...

'Man and Myth' by Sarah Mosedale

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Finally it was over. Last night had been the end of all the nights, the culmination of what felt like a lifetime of peering through a dens...

'The rush of it all' by Audrey Niven

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  ‘Follow me,’ she said as she brushed past me without stopping. Looking ahead in the crowds I couldn’t tell which way she would go. A...

'Going From Bad to Worse' by Cath Barton

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Frank was late. Late for his own wedding, with sweat trickling down his back and a sick feeling in his stomach. At the church they would be ...

'Celebrate' by Mileva Anastasiadou

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F igurative man always talks in metaphors. L ong before he approaches, he has counted all possible outcomes, he has made up all appropriat...

'Covid Romance' by R.V. Mitchell

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“Forever seems a long time,” Hennie typed onto the messenger. “Lockdown, isn’t forever,” Kennan responded.  “All of this will end eventua...

'Paul's Room' by Kathryn Kulpa

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F unny how things work out, or don’t. L ast time I saw Paul’s brother Ian he had his hand wrapped in a gauze bandage, grey and dingy, like ...
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