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Relic – 100 words

January 14, 2024 By Ellen

Relic Station commute, cloudy breath – warm coat. I slip my hand into my pocket and find, not hankies and the change I keep for shop doorway residents, but a mask. Paper cotton, ear loops and that unforgettable yeasty breath smell. I’d put those birdsong bright days of fear and wide empty roads away. They’d […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, coronavirus, covid, mask, pandemic, prose poem

Vacuum-packed chicken feet, a big screen and a stage

February 24, 2020 By Ellen

It was a shock, I’ll admit. I know we’ve seen people in surgical masks all over the news and all over the world, but that’s still there and not here. Very much not here. Nothing that interesting ever happens in our corner of the world. I used to hate that. The fact that the semi-rural northish […]

Filed Under: review, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, colour, coronavirus, Covid 19, David Copperfield, Dickens, in my life, in the world, infection, mask, Nixon in China, Opera, Stirling

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