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Crunch – 100 words

January 17, 2023 By Ellen

Crunch White glows at the edge of predawn blinds. Aliens landing? Nearly as exciting: it’s snowing! Acid sharp inhales and, eventually, blue light that draws the mountains closer. Crunch. Snowballs tight packed and launched on the way to school, put your big coat on… and your gloves. But snowballs are banned. Aye right. Crunch. First […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, cold, creative writing, snow, weather

A fishy tale – 100 words

January 15, 2023 By Ellen

A fishy tale I don’t think about kippers very often, but there they were in the fridge with their dead eyes and yellow label. A weekend breakfast: how nice! I remembered smoky sweet flesh and views over harbours. Warm them in a jug of boiling water – why a jug? I wonder – then serve […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, fillet, fish, kippers

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 […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, rest

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 […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, the fear

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 […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, New Year, new year new you

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