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The Abbey: Alex Kent | Welcome!
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The Abbey: Alex Kent. Sarah stared into Chris’s open grave, a single red rose resting on the black wood of his coffin. She was not aware of the others with her and her heart was lead in her chest. Father Michael finished his words and she tossed the clump of dirt in her hand on the coffin. It hid with a soft thud. Friends walked by her and murmured consolations that she didn’t really hear. Sarah It was his voice. She trembled. Yes, she whispered. It’s not your fault.”. No please, don’t go. Father Michael...
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The Big Choice: Anika Scott | Welcome!
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The Big Choice: Anika Scott. Third person omniscient or first person? Choices, choices. Life is full of them, but for a fiction writer, there’s one choice that I can safely call the Big Choice. That’s point of view. Point of view is much misunderstood, if not ignored, by new writers. Everyone knows about I (first person) or he/she (third person), but the finer aspects of point of view, the aspects that make it the most powerful influence on how a story unfolds, often remain a mystery. This is the easy on...
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The Write Tuition | Welcome!
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Is a new business started by writer John Craggs (known generally as ‘Gyppo’ in the online writing forum ‘My Writers Circle’). The website will not only give you more details, but will be regularly updated with short free articles about writing, there’s two there to kick it off, and – very likely – blog entries about the trials and tribulations of a new business start-up. Click the link to visit The Write Tuition. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Create a free...
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Angela’s Garage: Jenny Powers | Welcome!
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Angela’s Garage: Jenny Powers. Shut up Billy, you’re ruining it, Angela hissed at the audience. I’m starting again, I said. Click . Click. The lights came on. I took another deep breath, composing myself again, then stepped out onto the stage in front of the cheering audience. Well, it was supposed to be cheering. I stopped to glare at the audience, which just stared back blankly at me for a moment before remembering its job. Oh, cheer, cheer, Yay, Wow, erm fantastic. On drums we’ve got Angie Death!
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Last Words | Welcome!
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Chicken: By Priyanka Holsinger. So what’s it going to be today? Your smile, as usual, is fake and bright. I come to this place once a week like a prayer, but you never remember me. Never really notice me. What would you like to have today? I heard you the first time. I’m trying to understand why you are looking at the top of my head. Why can’t you look me in the eye? I will not stutter. I will not. Need more time to make up your mind? Yes Yes, please. I said. That sounded like a squeak even to me. What i...
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The Last Straw: Lorraine Cave | Welcome!
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The Last Straw: Lorraine Cave. If I were a gambler, which I’m not, I would have put money on the hair. What I am, according to my husband Jack, is a woman who has let herself go. Well, I’m planning. On taking his description of me literally in the very near future. I’ve booked the flight and the. Hotel and soon I shall be letting myself go to Florida. Jack was a theatrical agent. We lived off his ten per cents for nearly twenty years but the price I. Course, or our daughter, come to that. Supermarket lig...
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The Mousetrap: Daryl Baldwin | Welcome!
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The Mousetrap: Daryl Baldwin. It wasn’t much of an office in those days. A flight of stairs from the street, leading led up to a thick wooden door with one pane of frosted glass; the pane was cracked where some unfortunate dolt accidentally tripped after a heated argument with my associate. On the glass, written in sans serif black and gold letters, was the name of my business:. 8216;Won’t you come in? 8216;Okay if I smoke? 8217; The cigarette was already in her mouth before I answered. It wasn’...
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Interview: Ken Preston | Welcome!
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Hardline: When did you first realize your passion for writing? I can’t remember to be honest. As a child I remember writing stories in my spare time, and of course my favourite lesson at school was when we got the chance to write a story. I still have 2 junior school magazines with my stories in. My first published work! I do think that everyone who writes (especially fiction) is also a voracious reader, and I can still remember my Dad teaching me to read. Since then I haven’t looked back! When I started...
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For Mia: Kerry Cooke | Welcome!
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For Mia: Kerry Cooke. Danny watched their legs flex, their buttocks work the tight barely-there fabric of their skirts. Tarts’ he muttered to himself slipping in the door of the ‘café’. He made a quick sweep of the room with his eyes, trying to look as though he was searching for someone. He nodded and pushed the glass towards her, she filled the same glass and as she turned to walk away with the bottle he grabbed her wrist, with his other hand he held out two twenties. Daddy I wanna see DADDY! He heard ...
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Going Out: Chip Tolson | Welcome!
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Going Out: Chip Tolson. Would Great Aunt Susan remember her? It had been two years. My dearest Ian,. I should have written earlier. Now you’ve come here it’s wonderful. These people see everything, they read my letters, search my cupboards; it isn’t as if I’m a risk. I have top security clearance and you can vouch for that. I heard you’d been knighted. Can that be true? Sir Ian’, I like the sound of that: ‘Sir Ian and Lady Latimer’ if only. Perhaps I made it up. The tablets do that to me. Tall trees flic...
