Happy Halloween or Samhain. I have pumpkins to carve and candles to light tonight. But right now I feel like a scary story... Trick, Not Treat When the electricity failed, Pat was plunged into darkness and was not aware of anything except for the suspicion of a noise out on the porch. He froze, hands… Continue reading Trick or Treat
Category: Short Stories
Time (short story told from two perspectives)
I have never done a dp challenge but I'm going to give it a go. This is a story told from two points of view. First point-of-view Time Time is odd, always present. The ticking of my wristwatch tells me it is passing but looking at time would be looking at nothing. I’ve seen time-lapse… Continue reading Time (short story told from two perspectives)
To Sculpt Me
I was am an artist. I do sculpt using fabric and stuffing, I do it as a sideline for the toys, when I have time. So I understand that the worst thing anyone would ever ask is to say - sculpt yourself. For me it is fear-filled. and although the prompt has asked me to… Continue reading To Sculpt Me
Exhale
Exhale I'd been a Conservation Warden before going to Wales, but one wet autumn day I had damaged myself. It had been raining and we were getting ready for people to arrive at the fete that the center was putting together. Now there were two of us wardens, both girls. It shouldn't have made a… Continue reading Exhale
Learning to walk
Learning to Walk The Story Sasha had only signed up in order to get trained. A university degree without the cost, except the cost had been far larger than Sasha had ever imagined. The morning of her graduation she awoke and hauled herself out of bed. Just like any other person she went into the… Continue reading Learning to walk
A Fortunate Dilemma
This is a prompt from Write so Fluid and you can see her site here. A Fortunate Dilemma Pamela is a psychic and one morning she wakes with a vision. She has a choice. She can either miss breakfast or have it. Having breakfast will make her late for a meeting, so late that the other… Continue reading A Fortunate Dilemma
Fearful Symmetry
Fearful Symmetry This is a story where every sentence has to start with the same letter. I've chosen - A. Night Terrors A child lay in his bed, he was sleeping but he was also moving. A while back his mother had taken him to a specialist to ask why he moved, why he was… Continue reading Fearful Symmetry
Ghosts
Have you noticed on the TV they are starting to put on more horror...? I guess it must be coming up to that time - Halloween! I love this time of year with the leaves turning red and orange and the pumpkins ripening; looking like orange jewels in a load of green and brown foliage.… Continue reading Ghosts
Child Genius
Child Genius This prompt got me thinking... If you are a child genius what happens when you get older? Sure you skip a year or two in school and everything flies by until you are no longer with peers but people who are so much older than you. Do you socialise? How do you socialise?… Continue reading Child Genius
The elderly spy
The Elderly Spy The beginning - Mrs Simpkin sat at her desk. She was Mr Hargreaves personal secretary and as such was privy to all his comings and goings. So when the operative had walked over that morning and smiled at her, handing her a note she had stared at it with surprise. "Am I meant to… Continue reading The elderly spy
Kate Murray - Cleaver 