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New show for historic reenactment company

May 8, 2024 By Ellen

By AI Newsreporter 8 May 2074 The UK’s leading historic reenactment firm has unveiled its latest offering in their popular The Way We Used To Live (TWWUTL) performance. The new section, called Ticking The Actual Boxes, looks at the long-gone practice of allowing the public to vote for who they believe should run the country. […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing Tagged With: dystopian, humour, spoof

96 words

November 5, 2021 By Ellen

Some geese flew overhead today, honking and gliding in an improbably regular arrowhead. There’s always a chill, a gasp of woodsmoke and the knowledge that it’s only going to get darker when the geese fly. I wish I know how they do it. Which goose gets to go ahead of the skein? Is that a […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, creativity. Tagged With: 100 words, creative writing, flight, geese, migration, skein

A poem – In a moment

April 16, 2020 By Ellen

First things first, nothing horrible has happened and everything is rather fine at the moment. I just wanted to see if I could catch the feelings in that moment when you hear some awful, life-changing news.  When the tears won’t flow. This is the worst day of my life. The sharpest. Every second a pin-sharp, […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, other things I have learned Tagged With: creative writing, grief, poem, writing

Writing: seeking satisfaction

October 27, 2018 By Ellen

  Previously, I’d imagined Writer’s block was an empty loft. Nothing there but pigeon shit and echoes It’s not though. It is stuffed, rammed, jammed and bloody well bunged up. Like a colon after Christmas. Too much feasting on the fabulous Bingeing. Masticating and swallowing. Until All at once Immobile, There’s belly ache and belching. […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing Tagged With: creative writing, humour, in my life, MLitt, My Life, on my mind, Writer's Block, writing

The Hole in Time by Boy One

November 24, 2017 By Ellen

To avoid sorting out actual cupboards, I’ve been ratching through the blog back issues. I came across this gem from 2010 – a short story by my eldest son.   A short story. Once upon a time there was a poor monkey called Manny who had a friend called Sid, who was really stupid. One […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, environment, tropical rain forest

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