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A quick reminder that there’s a fortnight left for this month’s competition. Details:

For the October competition please write on any theme and include in your story two or more of the following words:

Uniform (as a noun or adjective)

Cumulus

Television

Mood

Spanner

500 words max, deadline midnight 31st October.

Very good point about the fuel Richard. I’m sure the BRM would have relied on fuel evaporation for cooling too – looking at those early 50s cars, the radiators don’t seem as big as you might expect, and the Alfettas often seemed to have part of the intake blanked off.

I can see the initial appeal of the H16. The V8 was a darn good engine,…[Read more]

337 words (inc. the title) and I managed ‘mood’ and ‘uniform’

FREEDOM JONES; AN INTRODUCTION

He remembered a time when he had been ordinary; when he had played with the other boys. A time when he ran, fought, laughed, and scraped knees with the other boys. When they had climbed trees and stolen fruit and snatched apple scones from the kitchen…[Read more]

Easy peasy

Yesterday evening, me  in mindless  mood, scrolling between television programmes, and phone an Instagram a reel came up, featuring the ever- crumpled face of Mick Jagger. He answering some question about song writing, where he got his inspiration from.

His ‘Everywhere! -Sometimes I only have to look out the window –‘  spanne…[Read more]

Thank you @Athelstone , and thanks also to Jill, Sandra and Seagreen for kind and encouraging comments.

488 words excluding title

FICKLE HEART

The small fluffy Cumulus clouds at dawn had promised a fine day, but by eight o’clock they’d grown into dark, lowering beasts threatening a thunderstorm ahead.  I resigned myself to a day indoors and this did nothing to improve the already black mood that had descended the night before when I received th…[Read more]

I’m not surprise your story was picked @Libby, it was really top notch piece of writing.

Thanks for the theme, @Seagreen. It certainly made me think hard!

That’s 31st October!

Thank you @Seagreen ! The prompt was a challenge, in a good way, and I’m very pleased to have been picked from such a strong collection of stories.

I was pleased to have my mind returned to the time I effortlessly wrote dark, so thank you for this, challenge, Sea, ad well as all the contributors – entertaining every one, but I confess to especially enjoying Libby’s contempt for the policeman.

No need for apologies, Seagreen – I’m sure we all understand the delay.  You set an intriguing challenge and have given a comprehensive and thoughtful judgment on each darkly intriguing entry.  I loved all the others and echo the reasons you have expressed.

Congratulations, Libby.  Well deserved.  As I read, I could almost feel myself in the cha…[Read more]