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I’ve taken Sandra’s brilliant prompt idea from last month and tweaked it. On a micro-fiction course some time ago, I was advised to find story prompts by combining a line of poetry with an instruction from a recipe.

For the April comp please write 400 words max of prose inspired by:
<p style=”text-align: center;”>”Suntrap bay windows”</p>
and
<p style=”text-align: center;”>”If you see tiny parsnips about as we did after the dry summer of 1976, do not despise them.”</p>
Deadline is midnight 30th April.
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The line of poetry is from ‘House on the A34’ in House on the A34 by Philip Hancock, CB Editions, 2023.

The recipe instruction is from ‘How to choose and prepare parsnips’ in Jane Grigson’s Vegetable Book by Jane Grigson, Penguin, 1979.

The micro-fiction course was taught online by Helen Chambers at The Writers Company.