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Optimism – 100 words

February 26, 2023 By Ellen

Optimism Walking through town as the sun sneaks up glinting tiles feeling the buzz of streets waking up of newspapers unbundled coffee machines primed smell wakes the air tuna mayo cement and baguette bricks ready for construction How do? Morning, much brighter today… Lights on weekend leftovers swilled pavement signs propped Good weekend? Lovely thanks […]

Overthinking – 100 words

February 25, 2023 By Ellen

Overthinking I have a small head, which is surprising when you consider how much thinking goes on in it. If brains were like biceps, I’d need a coracle for a hat. Not an oracle, though that might be more allegorical. When I need to know the answer – the right answer – instead of the […]

Library lust – 100 words

February 24, 2023 By Ellen

Library lust When you yearn, the only thing to do is find a book – a neatly-bound portal – that you can open and dive into. Leaping, not looking to breath in your longing and gaze at things you lack like vitamins in your famine. Pale, starving, it’s time to turn the pages, and turn, […]

Quibblings – 100 words

February 23, 2023 By Ellen

Quibblings There are many things they don’t tell you when you share your happy news, like the way the love hits you like a punch while the responsibility is terrifying, that privacy is a thing of the past, and one day you will be That parent, no matter what you promise. But they never mention […]

60103 – 100 words

February 22, 2023 By Ellen

60103 Smaller, squarish, going nowhere soon, The Flying Scotsman pants and gasps burping steam. Wednesday afternoon commuters interrupt bad-tempered waiting – We are sorry to announce… (They aren’t, you know) – to smile and photograph. You’ll never guess… Passengers peer past the 15.36 Pendolino to the 1923 A-class locomotive, gleaming, glossy, the world’s most famous […]

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