Category Archives: Non classé

Invisible me

Posted on 23 April 2020 by

Something strange has happened since the 17th of March at noon precisely – I have disappeared. But not entirely. Whilst inside my home, my husband, my daughter, her boyfriend, and the cat can all still see me perfectly well. I … Continue reading →

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Letter to my Friend

Posted on 21 March 2020 by

Dearest Optimism, Where have you gone? You were here until last week but I can’t find you now. I’ve looked and looked. Sometimes I catch a quick glimpse of your face in the shadows, but then it fades to nothing … Continue reading →

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Rest In Pistache

Posted on 3 December 2019 by

I am grieving and my heart knows why but my head can’t quite grasp the intensity of the feeling. Grieving for a cat? When others around me are grieving for a child, a spouse, a parent, a friend? How dare … Continue reading →

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Hush-a-bye

Posted on 25 September 2018 by

The summer silenced me. I found myself gently guiding the words creeping up from the cellar of my brain, back down the rickety stairway to the depths from which they had come. Dark words, damp words, words full of sadness … Continue reading →

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Listen, it’s Summer…

Posted on 21 June 2018 by

Summer is in the sounds. Not in the date, although I have to go with the original and official one of today. Nor the long hours of sunshine, nor the heat they sweep through the stifling streets. Summer enters through … Continue reading →

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Metallic Man

Posted on 9 June 2018 by

My pen has run dry recently but yesterday, over at Charli’s Ranch, the weekly challenge blew a spurt of ink into my nib and a little piece came to mind. This was the prompt: June 7, 2018, prompt: In 99 … Continue reading →

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Linked at the seams

Posted on 21 April 2018 by

Words have eluded me since the 12th of April when my lovely big cousin suffered a massive heart attack and tragically died. He was buried this morning on the island in the north of Scotland which he had made his … Continue reading →

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Moongazer

Posted on 28 March 2018 by

Yep, I’m still flashing, still driven by the need to concoct tiny little stories only 99 words long which usually stay hidden from here, visible only to Charli Mills‘ followers. For their eyes only. But this week, for some reason, … Continue reading →

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Stoned…

Posted on 20 March 2018 by

A lazy spider watches me from its parking space on the ceiling. He or she (I can’t tell from where I am) seems surprised at what I am doing. And so he/she should be. I too am surprised at what … Continue reading →

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Dear Sacha

Posted on 28 February 2018 by

Yes, you will undoubtedly find me ungrateful. No, I will not just keep my big mouth shut. But, honestly? All I asked for last week was your intervention to help make the never-ending raindrops stop falling. I imagined you may … Continue reading →

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