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Snowflakes of fear

August 16, 2025 By Ellen

It starts with a chill, prickling shift. Loitering behind, just out of sight. A malevolent whiff, fast and sneaky. The fear. I’m not talking about what you get from the roller coaster, the latest Stephen King or sitting alone with Blair Witch again. Neither is it the heebie jeebies brought on by arachnids, heights, clowns […]

Filed Under: fear, free-floating anxiety, other things I have learned, Post40bloggers, prompt, prose. Tagged With: prose poetry

Middle-age: the nightmare no one warned me about

December 1, 2014 By Ellen

My legs were tangled in the sheets – I couldn’t run. And a weight pressed my chest keeping me pinned down. I needed to get out away. But the scream choked off in my throat as slowly the dream cleared and I realised I was trapped by an affectionate nocturnal visit from Boy Three, who was snoring […]

Filed Under: fear, growing older, hair, humour, middle age, nightmare

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