The council are repairing potholes in the lane – yet again! They’ve tried the cold tar mix several times without…
Flying with Angels
It is the morning of Wednesday 17 April 1912; though national newspapers vie with each other to report the latest…
Fade to Black
First of all there is Blue. I grasp the hand-holds around the observation window and drink in the pure colour.…
Rebecca Re-imagined
For this exercise in ‘Writing Back’, I have imagined a new chapter for Daphne du Maurier’s novel ‘Rebecca’. Written from…
Uncharted Waters: Magellan, Maps, Malnutrition and Mutiny
We live in a world where international travel is commonplace. At the push of a button on our mobile phone,…
Shaking the Family Tree
On 6 January this year, census records for 1921 were opened. Census Day was 19 June, 1921 – delayed due…
Porkies
The supermarket delivers Janet’s order on Friday; on Saturday, Harry loads up his bike panniers and delivers food to his…
Sloth
Brian’s always been a bit slow. Oh, I don’t mean in the brain department, he always scored well above average…
Meerkatting
(meerkatting (verb) to bob up and down from your chair to see what your neighbours are up to!) ‘He’s there…
The Girl in the Yellow Dress
Reports of Hitler’s death on the last day of April 1945 brought a feeling of quiet optimism, people dared to…
Retail Therapy
In the fluorescent flicker of a hundred strip lights suspended from cables overhead, androgynous figures scale the vertiginous heights of…
Flannan Light
Based on a true story. No-one knows what happened to the three lighthouse keepers between the date of their last…