“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers” (Isaac Asimov)
The Final Act
Flash fiction inspired by Art - ‘In The Loge’ (Mary Cassatt). Story by Jess Stagg (aged 11)
We Get To Choose
Never underestimate the healing power of Nature
Vent
Exposed in the flatlands of Central France, our tiny Encouragement Farm is battered by early spring gales (vent is French for wind)
IKEA … We See Ya’
With IKEA it is double the pleasure … or the pain … the shopping and then the assembling. Good or evil, you decide
The Seeker
A short story submitted to the Welkin Writing Prize 2023
Never a Cross Word
A short story submitted to the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award 2023
Faded Glory
A poem inspired by fields of French sunflowers withered by the sun
Rise
An early morning run; labouring … lifted … soaring
The 'silence' of the lone cyclist
Reflections on the solitary emotions of cycling
Santa’s Socks
It was the day before the Night Before Christmas and all of Santa’s socks have holes in them. Who will save Christmas?