Thank you Jodi over at My Daily Minefield for this award! Honestly go and check this blog out it's really good and one of my regular reads. Here are the rules... • Display the award certificate on your website • Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented your award • Present… Continue reading the versatile blogger award
Author: Kate
The Lost Ring
Lost Ring Open on a room. A policeman enters followed by a man who appears dry eyed but upset. The policeman points at the photographs and the man goes forward and touches them, fanning the images like a pack of cards. He picks the one of the woman’s upper body and places it on top.… Continue reading The Lost Ring
The Upper Crust (Feast)
The upper crust (feast) Tis the year of our Lord 1540 and my name is Kit. I’m twelve years old and have been working in the kitchen since I was eight. I’ve always been a spit boy, although since the new spit was fitted my life is much easier. Now I just turn the one… Continue reading The Upper Crust (Feast)
Exercise
Exercise “How much exercise do you do a week?” the doctor asked looking over his glasses at me. “Um…” I cough into my hand and try to think past the cold I’ve actually come about. “Not much I guess. I help run a market garden.” I smile and wish I were anywhere else. I know… Continue reading Exercise
Words in a day
I have taken up the challenge to produce a piece of creative writing a day... So begins my 'Words a day' challenge... and yes I am already behind... Oops! Still below is the challenge for the 1st Jan 2013. The word is the title of the piece, this is a 100 word short story. A… Continue reading Words in a day
Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
I was researching an essay on Dinosaur Footprints and I decided to include North Brother Island, which is an abandoned quarantine island between the Bronx and Queens. There is an abandoned leper colony in America, right next to NYC… If you look at it online then you can see the devastation, the trees growing through… Continue reading Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
How to write and live… And Happy New Year!
On the 29th December a blogger I follow called Cristian Mihai wrote a blog called You either write or live. In it Cristian quotes: “The more you write, the less you feel alive,” says Jonathan Fisher. Cristian then goes on to agree... Except I don't. If you write or you live then there would be a… Continue reading How to write and live… And Happy New Year!
A conundrum
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of consequence." Cyril Connolly This was posted in the Thresholds Facebook page... and it got me thinking. Is the only true function of a writer to create a… Continue reading A conundrum
Boxing day and big brown bears
It is strange when you realise just how young you were when you started to expand your vocabulary. Twas Boxing day yesterday and my sister and her tiny son (less than a year old) were round for Christmas leftovers. Well after eating she was playing with Bill and suddenly he takes off for the kitchen,… Continue reading Boxing day and big brown bears
It’s Christmas!
Well almost. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I am sitting in front of the Christmas tree and trying to ignore the Christmas special on the telly. Enough 'Christmas's'? I think so. Don't get me wrong I'm not a bar-humbug type of person but I do hate the commercialism of it all. My gifts this year… Continue reading It’s Christmas!