Woolleybeans

  • Couldnโ€™t make more than a patchwork quilt of the remnants of my dreams so was forced to resort to the daydreaming option. (Can you tell Iโ€™ve been watching Supernatural? 😊)

    SACRIFICE

    Awareness filters into my consciousness like oil seeps into unleavened bread, slowly and without fanfare. The darkness in my mind begins to withdraw.

    I feel not…[Read more]

  • EEK!
    Just 3 days left for the Weekly Comp. As little as 300 words to make your dreams come true!

  • Knicks posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago

    Gentle one-week reminder for the Monthly Competition. This month’s prompt is dreams (or nightmare). Your piece can be inspired by a recent dream, or a recurring one. If you donโ€™t dream, you can still write anything you like, so long as the story is dreamlike, and the writing dreamy. 300-500 words.

  • Knicks posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago

    Half way through the month! Just your gentle midway reminder to dream a little dream for me and enter this month’s short story competition ✨ Entries so far definitely do the theme justice, full of streams-of-consciousness and the beautifully bizarre nocturnal meanderings of the minds of those who penned them. Your entry can be based on a…[Read more]

  • Jay

    Jay says he loves me. He says โ€˜I love you, manโ€™. He tells me heโ€™s killed his mother, or maybe I just think that he did. He says he crushed her like Plasticine, but I can remember that it was really me who crushed my mother. She was made of red plastic and her feet were set on a little tab so she could be stood up. I crushed her with my thumb…[Read more]

  • Denizens, we have a fistful of entrants to the annual short story challenge. This year will be a cracker. This year will be special. Seriously. Some of the past entries to the challenge have changed the way I think about writing. That may not mean much, but some of them have had a similar effect on literary agents and competition judges. Relax…[Read more]

  • RichardB replied to the topic Choices in the forum Group logo of Coming HomeComing Home 4 years, 8 months ago

    Train
    Cheese
    Elena

  • Daedalus replied to the topic Choices in the forum Group logo of Coming HomeComing Home 4 years, 8 months ago

    Spacecraft
    Vegetable
    Medina

  • Knicks posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago

    My endless summer vacation comes to an end on Monday. I’ve been doing my best to be as active as possible here over the last several weeks, but we all know where my promises to keep that up go once a new school year commences, haha. Gonna still try tho 🙈😊

  • In the place and time I found myself, I had done something wrong.

    My punishment? A chain of large metal links, secured around my throat, pressing against my flesh, reminding me of its presence every time I swallowed or turned my head.

    A man, with whom I had a connection โ€“ were we related? Was he the reason for my wrongdoing? โ€“ received the sam…[Read more]

  • Hi everybody. Just a week left before the writing challenge “Coming Home” closes to new members. If you’re interested in taking part, head to the group, join, and follow the instructions regarding choices.

  • Most of my dreams are about me being chased, and my running away. Seems to be a recurring motif in my dreamscape. Sometimes it’s horrifying, other times a call to adventure, and most times, something in between the two 😊

  • Knicks replied to the topic Eagle! in the forum Blogs 4 years, 8 months ago

    The link works, @libby, and the news really warmed my heart along with my morning coffee. The fact that the river was declared dead in the 1950s also brought to mind The Great Stink in @kazg‘s Time Catchers, though the Stink and the declaration were almost a hundred years apart. So happy to hear about the baby seals, sunning on the banks, eating…[Read more]

  • Squidge posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago

    Found out today that Super Stories has been longlisted (1 of 8) in the Lunchtime Book Club, a new children’s book prize based in Luton! SO chuffed.

    (Also in some amazing company – Frank Cotterell-Boyce; Lauren St Child; Marcus Rashford as well as others I’m not so familiar with)

  • Athelstone replied to the topic Eagle! in the forum Blogs 4 years, 8 months ago

    What a beautiful bird and how evil to kill it. But then, I probably don’t understand “country ways”. Actually, my mother was born and bred in a tiny farming community in the heart of Somerset and my father was born into a tiger-murdering family in Kanpur (Cawnpore as was) Northern India. I’m quite familiar with country ways. Generally, country…[Read more]

  • RichardB replied to the topic Eagle! in the forum Blogs 4 years, 8 months ago

    Lucky? Yes, and I didn’t even mention the boat trip out of Mallaig, again in beautiful weather, where we got close up to a school of dolphins. Magic.

    Actually, I feel quite privileged every time a kite comes over our house, even though they they are about the biggest conservation success story of the past century. It’s simply because they are so…[Read more]

  • 😃😊 Yayyy! Nothing makes me happier than that which is weird and wonderful. I personally won’t mind teeth-dropping out ones. There’s beauty in nightmare as well ✨

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