Category: Prose

This short story, just under 500 words, was an exercise in a writing class June last year. We were asked to write a short piece, autobiographical or fiction, ab...

Lily Briscoe is one of the main characters in Virgina Woolf’s 1927 novel To The Lighthouse.  The action takes place at the house on Sky that the Ramsey fa...

Can there be many things more irritating or embarrassing to its parents, more amusing to its neighbours or more likely to invoke admiration from its peers, than...

I am young, fresh and tender. I am succulently, greenly beautiful. Ah, but so, once, was I. You? You are old. Dry and brittle. You are past your prime. I, I am ...

This was homework for my creative writing class for the 5th November. The theme was shoes. This is a true story told to me by a solid, down-to-earth Yorkshirema...

Creative writing class homework of the 29th October 2019. The theme was telling lies. He moved a few paces as the queue shuffled forwards. He’d been standing in...

This was my creative writing class home work for the 8th October 2019. We were asked to write about an item of clothing. It was my therapist’s idea to get me th...