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Saturday song – 100 words

January 14, 2023 By Ellen

Saturday song The trouble with tired is that, in theory, it’s perfectly natural: we are only meat and ideas and electricity and need our rest as much as our tea and cake. But often, the little weary voice ‘I’m knackered, leave me be’ is drowned by the drum thumps of needs-to-be-done and the shrieking hullabaloo […]

The Fear – 100 words

January 13, 2023 By Ellen

The Fear Hello, my dear, Don’t get up. I’m coming to sit with you, here for a while on this comfortable sofa where it’s safe. Oh no, you don’t want to be going out there in the world where it’s difficult and people will judge you. You know they will. Just stay a while with […]

Quitters’ charter – 100 words

January 12, 2023 By Ellen

Quitters’ charter No to caring about bulges – yes to a body that lifts weights. No to suffering for weeks then quietly giving up – yes to climbing more hills. No to being more like her – yes to ‘who cares? This is me’. No to finishing books that bore – yes to ‘this looks […]

No such thing as bad weather… 100 words

January 11, 2023 By Ellen

No such thing as bad weather… Yellow warnings, 98% humidity, a damp dread, collar up, hunched dash to the car. This Weather! The dogs’ gaze is begging: when? Look out there, I say. Do dogs shrug? OK, let’s do it, it’s not going to improve any week now. Dress for the weather, they say. […]

My truth – 100 words

January 10, 2023 By Ellen

My truth I once had a truth. It was a glinty-eyed runt in the litter of my life’s history. When I gazed at it, love squeezed my soul: I fed it the nicest morsels, held it close in the dark. And it grew big and strong. One day it escaped – bounding and fanged – […]

Thomas Nicholson – 100 words

January 9, 2023 By Ellen

Thomas Nicholson Behind my house, looking up the hill – and into the past – I can watch him or what’s left, in an iron basket, dancing a helm wind jig, shirt tatters fluttering. I think I can see the ripples of the air around the gibbet – his and the man he murdered. You […]

What cosmic plan?

January 8, 2023 By Ellen

What cosmic plan? Today my yoga class was double booked. Oh shit! Dismayed as downpour soaked my mat, and wilted my perky resolve. So, we sat in the café and opened our hearts and thought that maybe this was better than Plan A Later, the gate was padlocked: No Entry – Deer Stalking! ‘Right dogs, […]

Wolf Moon – 100 words

January 7, 2023 By Ellen

Wolf moon Do I know the moon is full by the crackle of her milky white electricity, night shadows by my bins, the urge to pause and gaze up? Or because Facebook tells me I could join the forest women for a healing circle dance, the midnight swimmers for a shiver? Is it a restless […]

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