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JaneShuff posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago

Congratulations to Squidge!!
- JaneShuff replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  Sorry. The link appears to have gone missing! Trying again…
  https://squidgesscribbles.blogspot.com/2021/06/cirque-de-la-vie.html?fbclid=IwAR05rrB6IiQC_k91keo20cp7lAhzNexBG4zNNk68TLUO9OsaLPJaUeiW7Ts
  - Squidge replied 4 years, 11 months ago
    
    Thanks, Jane!
    - Libby replied 4 years, 10 months ago
      
      Brilliant, Squidge! I really enjoyed listening to your story.
Athelstone started the topic Monthly Competition – June 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

I shall be 65 this month. For most of my life, that was a significant date. It was the year that you became an Old Age Pensioner. Not now. It was a Labour government that did that. Hey Ho. OK, here’s a minor trope in many a thriller, in many a genre. You’re waiting for something significant, but it doesn’t happen. 250 words min, 500 words max.
Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

Ta ever so, Gail. My little story is about real people I knew a long time ago, and a real bar, so it was easy in a way. I liked your theme and I liked Sandra’s entry too. Pity about the numbers but that’s the way things are right now.
Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Gail, for your kind words and well done Ath! I had such high hopes of myself with this theme, having had several ancient, (I was 8 years old) nut-brown men in a Hertfordshire village to base a tale upon but strive as I might, (and I DID) it would not come right and each time I read it I knew that I’d missed the hoped-for essence.
Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

Before I set this comp, I suspect the gentleman who sweeps our streets must have passed by my window. He’s an absolute star. Has a smile and a chat for everyone, knows the names of all the local dogs and has helped push my car out of the snow at five in the morning.
But I don’t KNOW him, and I guess what I was looking for, on some hidden level,…[Read more]
- Libby replied 4 years, 10 months ago
  
  I really enjoyed both these entries. Congratulations @athelstone and @sandradavies.
Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

Sorry!!
Hoping to get time this afternoon to read the entries and post results.
Raine posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago

Just wanted to say hi & apologise for my absence. Things are busy with lead up to book release & I’m struggling to find time for other things. Which is a very nice complaint to have, so i’m not complainting. 🙂 Anyway, hi Denizens, I do still exist, hope you do too.
- Athelstone replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  And very understandable, too 🙂
  I’m fine (and still exist). Haven’t heard from podge for ages though 🙁
  - Daedalus replied 4 years, 11 months ago
    
    Same, really. I kind of exist though I’m not sure how much evidence there is for that tbh. Very much looking forward to your book
- Thea replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  Hi Raine, glad all is going well. Exciting! 🙂
Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

The Urban McGonagall [one expletive]

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. I’m a poet.
Not that many folk, to look at me, would know it.
(Part because they look but never see beyond the Council-issued uniform: pea-green.

Mostly I’m invisible. Indivisible, from barrow, brush and bucket. And yes of course, when drunks stumble, trip and tumble over my…[Read more]
Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago

@seagreen ‘s monthly comp? Can’t be just me people? Surely… Come on! The topics a cracker.
- Athelstone replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  or even topic’s
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago

*warning for language and content*

Sweep Weep

Shit! That’s Gaz over there. He mustn’t see me like this. Oh my God! I don’t even know how he got into those jeans. I can see the bulge of his iPhone. He’s looking my way. Stay busy with the cart, keep my hood up, pick the big brush. He’s never going to recognise me.

Called into the Woodpecker club…[Read more]
Squidge posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago

Just had a flash piece longlisted in Retreat West’s Quarterly Comp!

(It’s judged anonymously, so thank you to those of you who read it and encouraged me to submit, but please don’t ID it! x)
- Bella replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  Super!
  - Athelstone replied 4 years, 11 months ago
    
    Great stuff, Squidge.
- Kate replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  Fab news, Squidge. Congratulations.
  - JaneShuff replied 4 years, 11 months ago
    
    Brilliant news.
Seagreen started the topic Monthly Competition – May 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 12 months ago

May the Force be with you… 🙂

You are the person who sweeps the streets. In 350 words (or thereabouts), I’d like you paint me a picture of your setting, your character and your situation.

Have at it!
- Sandra replied 4 years, 11 months ago
  
  @seagreen: idea and opening line arrived soon as I read this, but the rest of it is taking time to emerge. Will get there eventually, I promise.
  - Seagreen replied 4 years, 11 months ago
    
    I never doubted you!
Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 12 months ago

Um… not sure that’s what I intended when I posted but, since it’s you, I’ll run with it 🙂

I’ll get my thinking cap on and come back to this.
Sandra posted an update 4 years, 12 months ago

Monthly competition: April passed unnoticed, and I had @Seagreen remind me I’d set a competition (my head down, editing) so watch this space for whatever theme @Seagreen sets, and please, please make the effort both for her and to keep the flame alive!!
Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 12 months ago

@Seagreen

Good heavens!! What happened to April? I completely forgot I’d set a competition, was somewhat startled to discover it was May, but I do like this – rings some bells since, apart from invisible, April seems to have been a retrospective month, for more than me.

So without further ado, I’m handing the baton for May’s competition to you -…[Read more]
Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 12 months ago

@sandradavies Didn’t work out the way I wanted, and too late to be of any use, but I thought I’d post it anyway… 🙂

EROSION

And it’s just enough to harm
It’s just enough to make its mark

Is it just me, or has that guy got a voice like a Brillo pad?
Actually…
…could you turn it down?
It’s making me maudlin.
No, seriously. Turn it down.
Or,…[Read more]
Sandra posted an update 5 years ago

Browsing on iplayer, I came across this short and sweet account of writers who count their book sales in millions: h t t p s://w w w.b b c. co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rs9l/mills-and-boon-writing-for-love-in-northern-ireland
- Athelstone replied 5 years ago
  
  Really interesting. The sales figures are astonishing; a group of authors up there with Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer etc. but a million miles from household names.
Sandra posted an update 5 years ago

I’m hoping participants in ‘Songs of innocence and experience’ will be as interested in sharing as some are of reading origins of the stories begun back in October 2019
Athelstone posted an update 5 years ago

Participants in Things that go Bump, my be interested in a new topic there 🙂
- Athelstone replied 5 years ago
  
  “may be”
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