Esther Newton does a great writing prompt series called Monday Motivations, and her latest prompt is this lovely photograph. When I saw it a little story came to me, and so here it is: She remembered when he’d put the bench there. He’d been young then, and strong, muscles firm against his skin, his fleshContinue reading “#Monday Motivations – The Bench”
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#writephoto – Tryst
This week’s prompt for Sue Vincent’s #writephoto challenge is yet another gorgeous photo. Here is my response: Purple Sky ‘I’ve always loved this time of day’, she said, Her hair shaded purple in the fading light. Her heart distant as the hillside across the water, Unreachable, unclimbable, Indifferent as the rising moon. ‘I loveContinue reading “#writephoto – Tryst”
#writephoto – Swansong
Sue Vincent’s weekly #writephoto challenge is one of my favourite writing prompts. Her photos are always evocative and inspire a wide range of responses, as though she’s captured a little piece of storytelling magic in each image. Perhaps she has… Here is my response to this week’s photo: Swansong They call it a swansong OurContinue reading “#writephoto – Swansong”
30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Fifteen – Witness
It’s day fifteen, half way through the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Witness I’d had a little flicker of an Ambeth story running through my mind and it seemed to work with this prompt, the idea of the trees as silent witnesses being quite insistent. If you’ve read the books, you mayContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Fifteen – Witness”
30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Thirteen – Forgotten
Forgotten. It is a word of sorrow, of lost things. Memories, people, ideas, thoughts – to be forgotten is to disappear. We search through the forgotten, trying to piece together the past. But the flickers of light that made it real have long since faded, and all we are left with are the shadows ofContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Thirteen – Forgotten”
Circles Beyond Time – Sorrow
This is the continued story of my weekend away with The Silent Eye. Please click here for instalment one and two. After the visit to Carl Wark and an excellent dinner, I returned to my hotel unable to do anything other than watch TV for a while before falling asleep, thoughts of finishing my shortContinue reading “Circles Beyond Time – Sorrow”
Helen Glynn Jones 