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Terrible Minds Flash Fiction: The Horde 18 Aug 2013 | 02:16 pm
Each week Chuck Wendig does a flash fiction challenge on his website, Terrible Minds. Considering I’ve come off my antidepressants and I can write fiction again, I thought I’d stretch my writing finge...
A speck of sand; a tiny success. 2 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
Everyone wants a piece of me and I am chip-chop-cut into tiny little pieces, scattered on the wind. My calendar is full and my batteries have run out. I am slow-slow-slowing down, like a toy, like a p...
I am a writer who cannot write 27 Jul 2013 | 10:30 am
I am a writer without inspiration, still striving to let the words flow free. I am dammed and damned by my inability to find the right sentences to express myself. I am a writer with no paper. I have...
The Ghosts That Haunt Me 24 Jun 2013 | 12:35 pm
I see dead people flicker past the corner of my eye as I potter around the house. They’re particularly persistant when I’m in the bathroom and naked. Perhaps it’s the ghost of a dirty old man. ...
The power an English teacher holds 4 Jun 2013 | 05:50 am
When I was fourteen, I wrote an anthology of poetry. Hand written, set out neatly on blue lined paper, I stapled it together with my name upon the cover. Shyly I handed it to my English teacher at the...
It’s June again. A Poem. 3 Jun 2013 | 10:03 am
I wish that I could write a song, so that in the dim grey light of winter I could immortalise the memory of you for my children. I would sing in the wee hours of the morning when the babe seeks comfor...
Neglected blog: A (bad) poem 15 Apr 2013 | 07:12 am
Poor neglected blog sits alone in the corner hoping no one will notice how the words have trailed off the edges of the pages leaving thoughts unfinished. I think it’s ashamed to be a blog right now wh...
Neglected blog: A poem 15 Apr 2013 | 07:12 am
Poor neglected blog sits alone in the corner hoping no one will notice how the words have trailed off the edges of the pages leaving thoughts unfinished. I think it’s ashamed to be a blog right now wh...
Death and dying 5 Apr 2013 | 07:45 am
I am standing in the greenhouse with a pair of scissors in my hand, snipping away at pumpkin vines. The backs of my hands bleed, a myriad of scratches and tiny pumpkin thistles resisting their inevita...
Sleepless Nights is up for a Bloggie! 4 Mar 2013 | 01:50 am
My other blog, Sleepless Nights (home of parenting complaints, convoluted stories and truth telling) is up for a Bloggie! I’m in the Best Australia category, but also in the Lifetime Achievement categ...
