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Life and soul – 100 words

March 24, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Life and soul When she lived with a drinker she learned to spot when their focus had shifted to an internal, eternal happy hour. All senses vigilant: smelling sour spilled stuff hearing a booze-fat tongue feeling the shame, inevitability of plans awry. Then, no point in making them in the first place. But still there […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, addiction, alcohol, drinker

Forced adoption – 100 words

March 23, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Forced adoption Imagine him saying ‘mama’ and fat fists reaching out, his stumbling steps, rushing through school gates ‘muum’ child’s voice lifting clear of the chorus – calling to you. Where is he? Who is kissing it better? Are they proud? Scan queues at the amusements, faces in the papers. You’d know him: you could […]

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

A bad taste – 100 words

March 22, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

A bad taste Laughter, catching-up chatter, night cold leaks in as the door opens, other diners sit, study menus. One is a woman with her back to me, I’d recognise that nape anywhere. I wouldn’t say I hated her exactly, but she makes me prickly with the sense that she’ll go home to laugh at […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, mistaken identity, restaurant

Comfort break – 100 words

March 21, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Comfort break Toilets are ONLY for the use of customers it says over there on the wall between the hand-knitted stag’s head and the Tuesday pub quiz notice. Outside heather and pine and the long, long road make a mood board of purple skies and moisture. There’s a hunched cottage and light glinting from railtracks […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, cafe, creative writing, North Coast 500, Scotland

Infernal equinox – 100 words

March 20, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Infernal equinox If your life had an equinox, what would you do? One foot in youth, the other in age, celebrate a mid-point, a half-life triumph or dread the downhill tumble to the grave? Does the equator of existence mean an end to learning, the start of teaching? Do you say ‘I’m half way through, […]

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

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