The small gold filigree basket captured the sunbeams as they filtered through the lace voiles, giving the illusion that the small antique object was magically sprinkled with stardust. It was sitting on the dressing table in room 206. The year…
I sat on the bathroom stool and opened the laundry basket. It had been a fabulous day out, just the two of us. The twin’s PJ’s lay on the top, they’d been for a sleep-over at my mum and dad’s.…
‘Martin. Do you know what freedom is?’ Miss Price watched the boy over her round rimmed spectacles, her foot tapping on the lectern’s step. Her mouth puckered expectantly and her nostrils flared. Miss Price was of slight build with…
It was early on Christmas day morning that I saw her write the note. She was sitting down at the kitchen table her eyes screwed up. She would normally put on her glasses when writing, but today she was behaving…
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Never Let it fade away You remember that old 50s hit by Perry Como? It came to be, for me, the signature tune for our island. For the first few…
It is true – I was kidnapped and held for ransom by a soldier dressed like one of Fidel Castro’s men. It was the second day of my new job in the city. I was seventeen years old and in…
It was always mum who cooked our food, washed our clothes and generally looked after us, but it was auntie who nurtured my soul. Mum gave me orders every morning on what not to do. Like do not tamper with…
Phil looked at his watch for the tenth time in so many minutes, then stared at the mains switch which would cut the power to the whole building should he decide to turn it. At 1.30am., the plan was to…
The mountain reached up to a blackening sky. Dusk was falling and shadows were cast on craggy outcrops. Hidden in one of the rocky crevices was an empty nest … A young brave moved stealthily through the thick lush undergrowth.…
Was a gathering of writers who celebrated aplenty.They were huddled round lap-tops… minus a much-needed diplomaDue to a virus pandemic called Covid Corona.They shared lots of stories of how they pulled throughHere’s one from a writer from her point of…