Today’s creative writing Throwback Thursday is a cute little poem that I penned back in 2001 at the grand ol’ age of 12! A couple weekends ago The Unicorn and I were back at my parents and my dad asked me to go through some old boxes that he’d hauled down from the loft. I […]
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Throwback Thursday: “Why I Want a Girlfriend” (2004)
At the tender age of 16, without even realising it, I was given my first taste of powerful feminist satire. Judy Syfers’ article (now Judy Brady)ย ‘Why I Want a Wife’ appeared in the first issue of Ms. Magazine launched in the summer of 1972. The essay is perhaps one of the best-remembered pieces from the […]
Throwback Thursday: What Happened? (2007)
Going back to the old skool again today for Throwback Thursday. Here’s a piece of poetry from my late teenage angst years, circa 2006/7. I’m pretty sure I wrote this when I was a Learning Support Assistant at my old high school. I was going through a break-up (the first of many with this particular […]
Throwback Thursday: The Writer (November, 2003)
So in the grand scheme of streamlining my blog, but still being able to share old work, I’ve decided thatย embracing ‘Throwback Thursday’ is the way to do it! This week’s feature is a little creative writing gem — homework from 2003!! The Writer He looked down at the yellowing parchment through the cracks in […]
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Hope
What is hope? What is its purpose? Hope is a tiny dragonfly that flutters its way across the sky, darting from sun to shadow wishing its flight to go straight. Hope is something that breaks and swells like a wave in a storm. Sometimes you loose it completely and other times it crashes down on […]
Little Spiral
Sometimes getting back to reality is never the same. Nothing ever seems to be where you left it and nobody’s noticed. The world’s moved forward and you feel left behind. Caught up in a bubble, suspended in time, but now you’ve been popped; burst back into today. It takes a while to adjust and re-mould […]
The Dark
When she called his name there was nothing. Nothing but the sound of empty darkness. Now she knew she was alone and she was scared. Why was it that every time she found herself in a tight spot Todd took it as the perfect opportunity to go and ‘explore’. This time, Lyndsey was less than […]
First Contact
She was by all accounts the perfect stranger. Someone you could watch from a distance, unseen and unnoticed in your attraction and no one was ever the wiser. A perfect figure in the strobe light propped up against the bar, half empty alcopop in hand, chewing on her straw. Not quite the measure of sophistication […]
Abused
She tried to blink, her face still smarting from the blow. Her eyes watered and the warm tears cooled the heat of her cheek. Sara ran her fingers across her face and felt the raised markings of harsh fingertips burning into her. She flinched at the touch and closed her eyes once more. It had […]