About me
I'm a freelance writer - fiction, nonfiction and anything else that happens to tango its way through my mind. That's for me, and I've won a competition or two, and been published in a range of media. To keep the wolf from the door, I also edit, proofread and write for other people. Love it all. Aren't I lucky?
Six Weeks in Summer – Helen Meikle. Available on Smashwords and Kindle
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Seizing the day 31/1: Misnomer
This supermarket isn’t super. It isn’t a market, either: no gathering of stalls with funky purveyors of local tomatoes and hand-made beads and wooden trains with wobbly wheels… It’s just a big fat greedy conglomerate that sucks up the good … Continue reading
Daily prompt: The bliss of entitlement
DAILY PROMPT: GENERATION XYZ Think about the generation immediately younger or older than you. What do you understand least about them — and what can you learn from them? I was born during WWII, which seems to mean I don’t … Continue reading
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Seizing the day 30/1: Dichotomy
White gull dreaming against cloudless blue, warm ripples on wet-sand mirror at the water’s edge. Board riders crouched in the curl of a wave lined up to touch down from the open sea. But the wind is cold, when you’re … Continue reading
Daily prompt: The alternative to Fotherington-Thomas
DAILY PROMPT: WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW Write a post entirely in the present tense. I’m sitting here regarding the day, about to blister your socks off with the sheer excitement of it all. But then I’m thinking that rather than … Continue reading
Weekly challenge: Imagining anorexia
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: LEAVE YOUR SHOES AT THE DOOR Silence. We sit staring at each other, I blank as the wall behind his head, he contemplating lunch, perhaps; his next holiday, the chance of a round of golf on Sunday. … Continue reading
Seizing the day 29/1: Us then
We walked through there so many afternoons, rods in hand, the bush damp and humming with bugs and mystery. And now it’s gone, leaving scraggly grass and naked rocks humiliated. Bricks will come soon. I’m glad you didn’t have to … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Peacefully on the outer
DAILY PROMPT: BFFS What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned from the person you’re the closest to? If I’ve got the definition right, I don’t have a BFF. If I’m allowed to count family, I’ve got several, all best, all … Continue reading
Seizing the day: 28/1, Cold calls
Don’t call me when you don’t know me from Adam, especially since I’m an Eve and you call me Mister. Don’t try to sell me stuff I don’t want, can’t afford, find boring to the point of rigidity. Don’t invade … Continue reading
Weekly challenge day 7: Holiday’s end
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: LUNCH POSTS It’s raining. Weeping? School goes back tomorrow… Homesickness and the smell of wet gabardine, the dining hall vast and stuffy, dank and alien. The clank of two hundred spoons wielded by strangers eating cornflakes… I’d … Continue reading
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