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Chin Chin – 100 words

May 17, 2023 By Ellen

Chin Chin   Look at my dark eyes see what’s reflected there. This night. You’ll know the consequences, Septem annis, bad luck. I search for your intention, the way of your heart. Is our friendship baptised with wine or murderous ambition? Can you see shards of candlelight ricochet from my jewellery? I deflect precious ingenuity, […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, cheers, chin chin, creative writing, Rome, tradition

Postcard from Rome – 100 words

May 16, 2023 By Ellen

Postcard from Rome   ice cream in brioche selfie stickers on famous steps cobbles ‘Small park with ruins’ pistachio Tiber gurgles thickly trees like parasols Aperol spritz, the colour of Irn-bru ‘no, non abbiamo bisogno un ombrello’ Julius Caesar was not an emperor ecooters – tooters touristic phalanx following the flag Eternal City deep-fried artichoke […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, Italy, postcard, Rome

Carry on – 100 words

May 15, 2023 By Ellen

Carry on   The ogres you fought and mountain you defeated cast shadows where you tread. Dark shadows, inky with menace, phantoms lurk and all you can see are glinting fangs. You stumble in the gloom fearful, consider sitting on a rock and watching while life skitters onwards   See, beyond the shadows where the […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, writing therapy

One in four – 100 words

May 14, 2023 By Ellen

Trigger warning – pregnancy loss One in four You never forget the first drop of blood, a sickening stillness – the knowing the not knowing   You never forget what happened next, recalibrating a future – the telling the not telling   You never forget the inadequacy of ‘I’m sorry’, the hurt of turned away […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, baby loss, creative writing, miscarriage, women's experience

June 2008 – 20 weeks – 100 words

May 13, 2023 By Ellen

Trigger warning: pregnancy loss   June 2008 – 20 weeks   There was sunshine on the day you left spring summersaulting to summer and optimism, but you’d gone and I didn’t know   I carried imaginings future selves, with ice cream, on beaches… my motherhood – calmer, stronger, wiser, Not a woman who didn’t know […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, writing therapy

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