stories
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Thank you to everyone who responded to my call for authors last week. Over the next few weeks, I will be featuring some fantastic books in my Friday book slot. If any of you would like me to give your books a plug, please get in touch with your blurb, author bio, a photograph of…
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Last Friday, I announced I was changing my Thursday five-word challenge. I thought it was about time I mixed things up a bit. So you’ll find a different word challenge here every Thursday. Here’s your first one: Can you tell a story up to 100 words (you can still write a five-word one if you…
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It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: MOON So can you tell a story in five words using the word MOON in it somewhere? Your word last week was CONTROL. Here are your CONTROL stories: EDC Writing: In control, with her, unlikely. Kim Smyth: I lost…
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It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: ADOPT So can you tell a story in five words using the word ADOPT in it somewhere? Last week’s word was FAMILY. Here are your FAMILY stories: Keith Channing: You cannot choose your family. Family is but friends are.…
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It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: SPELL So can you tell a story in five words using the word SPELL in it somewhere? Last week’s word was WIND. Here are your WINDY stories: Keith Channing: Wind is indeed a homograph. Wind can be a homophone.…
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It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word is: SWING So can you tell a story in five words using the word SWING in it somewhere? Last week’s word was PLOT. Here are your PLOTTED stories: Terveen Gill: They gathered to plot murder. Keith Channing: The plot was definitely vacant.…
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It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word is: PLOT So can you tell a story in five words using the word PLOT in it somewhere? Last week’s word was NEXT. Here are your NEXT stories: Terveen Gill: They will kill me next. Darlene: Who will she kill next? He…
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For part one, click here For part two, click here The knife came from nowhere. Eleanor hadn’t seen it before. All she saw was a shimmer of silver and then there was a sea of scarlet. Her mummy didn’t even get a chance to scream. Mrs Draper did. She screamed before she ran down the…
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For part one, click here I am shaking with sobs now. I know the answer. I know the things Eleanor has seen. Things a seven-year-old shouldn’t see, shouldn’t ever know anything about. And I could do nothing about it. I couldn’t stop it, I couldn’t save her. But it wasn’t always like this. Her daddy…
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She’s seeing things again. My dear, sweet, Eleanor. I watch her and yearn to reach out my hand and stroke her long, brown hair, to tuck it back behind her ears. The tiny girl turns. She knows I am watching. Such sadness in those glorious eyes. My fingers are edging nearer. I stop. I can’t…
Esther Chilton 