Down paw Where I live it doesn’t rain instead, a large damp dog arrives drenched, drooling and dirty Its arse – grey-brown and stinking – descends growling low, lowering, filling the blue and crushing. Tail flicks the branches wet pelt obscures skylark skies, joy and our optimistic horizons everything blurs and our ears are full […]
100 words – movement
If you’d seen me in the class with the others on our mats, you couldn’t tell. My pose – all swiveled and clutching – looked just like others. Bent pipe cleaner, tangled headphones. But I knew it was wrong. Pushing and silently grunting, I couldn’t twist past my spare flesh-cluttered front. My shameful flesh-cluttered front, […]
Helping Your Child Transition Into Sixth Form
100 words – The Queen
The Queen. I’d never met her, though she seemed like a nice old lady; the kind of granny who’d sneak you a toffee. Not any longer – she died today. Of course, there are more opinions about monarchy and history than years in her record-breaking reign. Right, wrong, royal? Who knows? But on my way […]
100 words – Summer in the north
Summer in the north. There’s a moment when the sun finally gets its hat out from behind the fat coats when we stand, dazzled and gaze at the bright. Oh, how lovely! And we peel off the layers to reveal naked skin, startled and smooth, like unshelling prawns. Toes and armpits and knees startlingly unclothed. […]