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A mother’s roll – 100 words

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A mother’s roll   Mum to be New mum Gina Ford mum Breastfeeding mum Mastitis mum Formula mum Working mum Sign language mum Baby-led weaning mum Playgroup rota mum Guilty mum Swimming lessons mum Neurodiversity assessment mum Fight their corner mum Single mum Shouty mum Sleepover mum Leave the office on the dot mum Scout […]

Funeral tea – 100 words

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Funeral tea   Over the sandwiches nobody wanted: A lovely service… So sad… More tea? Did you know…? Do you remember…? I wish… So do I… We shut our eyes and wished harder than we’d ever wished before and there you were shimmering over teacups. Made from dust and misery and pieces of our hearts, […]

Change – 100 words

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Change   Wood eventually dries, crumbles, splits and releases the nail. Sellotape, exhausted, curls up and falls off the paper. Silt shifts and rocks roll down the river, night gloom is slashed by dawn and flees. Rain dries. Midnight hungry babies will eventually be teenagers that won’t get out of bed. Skin will sag. People […]

Solstice – 100 words

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Solstice   We grow like plants towards the light – straining, strong, blood-sap rising, our vein-visible leaf-tips fluttering up, reaching, rushing, straight overhead, meeting beating down sun at its highest, balanced and bringing fire to earth – a smouldering manifestation of living energy.   My growing, glowing plant centre can sense the neck-cricking pull to […]

Dear Younger Self – 100 words

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Dear Younger Self It won’t turn out the way you expect. And it’ll be a whole lot easier if you start with this advice, which you’ll ignore. Here goes anyway… You are worth it – you don’t need to prove it. The effort in earning love from people who don’t deserve it is exhausting and […]