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Moldewarp – 100 words

February 2, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Moldewarp What is a molehill? An inconsequential pile of soil, sifted and airy, like baking flour, field acne, rashing across the grass. It’s raining – but subterranean, who cares? Talipidae are busy: worm-trap tunnels bear fruit mole spit paralyses and underground larders fill with the once squirming. Peckish predators squeeze supper until earthy guts squidge […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, animals., creative writing, moles, spring

Harbingers – 100 words

January 26, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Harbingers Every year they come: tender white heads peeping from green swaddling. Vulnerable necks. They tell us it’s true: months of winter waiting is worth it. Buds and blossom and bloody dandelions will follow, with blooming certainty. We’ve made it through the darkest. Head cocked in the dawn – listening to creatures waking, rustling and […]

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

Nature’s Day – 100 words

May 16, 2022 By Ellen

Nature’s day. Today was the day the dog and I agreed that the grass was too long, too wet, too full of thistles and nettles. We went the long way round to the field. Detour an annual inevitability, we are already dancing with traffic at the edge of the road, defeated by blind lunges into […]

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Healing – 100 words

April 26, 2022 By Ellen

Healing. Sometimes when dramas and other people’s lost possession distract from tending the broken parts, things change. You, check, fleeting to find that new skin is fresh and pinkly smooth. Fine, that’s that, you say. And go about infatuations and reactions, habits clunking into place – a solid construction. Moving forward. But under the carapace […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, creative writing, healing, spring

Summer clothes – 100 words

April 24, 2022 By Ellen

Summer clothes. Dawn, high blue and clear. Warm through double glazing. A day to get the boxes down from the top shelf. Hello linen, shirts with no sleeves. Sandal cages for naked toes. Dresses I didn’t wear last year, or the one before. Shorts. Espadrilles. Capris. Flip-flops. Even the names glisten in the sun. The […]

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