Seagreen

Oh, for goodness sake!
Bilbo, not Frodo. Where is my head at?

We have a week to go.

Still time to access your inner burglar and be the next Frodo Baggins ????

Including figurative dragons, of course ☺️

Apologies for being late back to this.

Richard, thank you for the comp and for your kind words. I did try to steer clear of that particular subject matter but, ultimately, it was the only thing that remained front and centre when all the other ideas had scarpered.

Strong field this month and all so marvellously different!…[Read more]

UNTITLED – 350 words

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Lumpy pillows in torn, unidentifiable protective fabric, stuffed into too-small pillow cases. A saggy, foam mattress, plastic-coated and marinated in dilute bleach. A side-room with a window looking onto the whitewashed wall on the other side of the hospital and a door that opens d…[Read more]

Anyone else got ???? Supposed to be a smiley face 🙂

Sorry for being so late with this…

Sandra and Ath, thanks for entering – and both with a hair-related topic! ???? Alex, no worries. I’ll catch you next time.

Sandra – your chosen article left me gobsmacked. Clearly, I have been a victim of this. Brainwashed into keeping my hair short because my good looks are a threat to other women. I’ll be on…[Read more]

5 days left to give me the lowdown on what really happened behind the headline!

Thanks, Knicky, for the challenge and for seeing something in my effort I wasn’t sure was there.

Thanks also to Terrie, Libby and Alex. I would have been more than happy to say I’d written any one of yours ☺️

Fiercely reaching yet afraid of letting go. (756 words)

He wakes. Slowly. Reluctantly. To a feeling of being underground. Air heavy and thick with dust. Throat dry and aching. Eyes full of grit.

He is pinned, lying sideways on a surface, twisted and unforgiving, one arm beneath his hip and the other across his chest. He cannot feel his feet,…[Read more]

Congratulations, Knicky, a most excellent story!

Thank you, Sandra, for the comp, and for allowing me to imagine another Piety/Freedom Jones episode.

And thanks to all the entrants for being amazing writers and keeping me inspired  🙂

UNTITLED (600 WORDS)

‘Seriously, Dom, you’re going to want to know about this.’

Virgil’s words tumbled out with enough agitation to stir, not only my curiosity, but something in the darker recesses of my mind.

‘Piety’s back.’

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Piety – Prototype 1: Experimental Transcendent Interface. An engineered being of such incredible power, I had…[Read more]

Well done, Sandra, and thanks Libby for inspiring a rather fun-to-explore effort ☺️

For a variety of reasons, I never studied Shakespeare at school and had to go off and read a sonnet (or two!) to gauge the appropriate level of thees, thines and thous.

Ath and Terrie – both delicious reads!