Tag: creative writing
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4 – 8 March 2024
Tuesday Awake at 3:01am. It was still raining at 7am and I missed the bus to the station twice: once as it drove past my door and again as it completed its circuit, crossing its own path a few streets over. From the top of the bus in the city I heard a wheel squeak…
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5 – 9 February 2024
Monday The first miniature iris of the season are out. I love these flowers. Tiny and exotic. Less exotic: the litter pick. Along with everything else, six large canisters of nitrous oxide. You could be forgiven for thinking the change in law has had no effect, but you would be wrong. Now, instead of the…
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16 – 19 January 2024
Monday Deer! Five or six of them – as fast as you like – running across the field. I spot them in silhouette, dark shapes moving against the stubble, which is getting lighter as the dawn breaks. I’ve never seen deer here before. Back in the wood I look up through the trees and there’s…