Starfish Girl
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115 of my 939 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 122 votes
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A Flake of Your Life
A writing class exercise, how music can influence writing! I enjoy Saturday evenings. The end of the week and the chance to try out a new recipe. I...
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The Finishing Touch
The mirror was cracked and smeary. Some of the lights around its edge flickered as though trying to send some sort of Morse Code message. Jules...
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Revenge, flash fiction
A challenge at my writing class to write flash fiction, take an existing story and cut it to 200 words. Not sure it works, I prefer original. Could I...
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Chicks
She watched and was beguiled by the look of complete concentration. A small pink tongue was held captive by a set of perfectly formed teeth and the...
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Old Girls
Another writing class exercise, a scene with at least 5 characters how to introduce them without 'he said, she said' etc. Not sure they each said...
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Tina,
Posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2014
Tina,
The ordinary, everyday life of young mothers culminating in tragedy. The comparison, and simplicity of the whole poem is wonderful.
Brought tears.
Take care
Lindy
Read full commentPosted in It All Came Out in the Wash
Simply put but with such a
Posted on Thu, 26 Jun 2014
Simply put but with such a depth of feeling .Very difficult to 'take what comes'
Hope there is life on Mars for you and your mum.
Lindy
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A scary piece, and the
Posted on Sun, 15 Jun 2014
A scary piece, and the repetition, and its change intensifies this .
Lindy
Read full commentPosted in Look Out
Cold shivers and goose bumps.
Posted on Wed, 07 May 2014
Cold shivers and goose bumps.
A great social statement of the time. I was born in 1947 and can remember pig bins, washing day, rent man etc.
I was luckier than you, wanted, even by my brother eventually, five years older than me...
Read full commentPosted in Women of a Certain Age
It seems that 'the ones'
Posted on Tue, 01 Apr 2014
It seems that 'the ones' existance did not deserve a name, was just there, until the very last line where dreams can't be stifled.
Quite chilling.
Lindy
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Simple and short but so muche
Posted on Thu, 27 Mar 2014
Simple and short but so muche there.
Lindy
Read full commentPosted in In the silence that follows
Yes, what a great way to end.
Posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2014
Yes, what a great way to end. I thought he was going to be a villain of some kind. Kept me reading, well done.
Read full commentPosted in Raza's home visit
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