S is for Shop.  Anything to do with a shop, or shopping, or a shopkeeper – so there’s plenty to go at.

It could be a character shopping for something special – how easy is it for them to get the perfect present? What could go wrong?

Maybe your character hates shopping… does online shopping… works behind the counter… loves spending hours going round the shopping centre – what’s their story of shopping?

You could write a piece based on your memory of what shops used to be like when you were a child… I can still smell the beer-off we used to go to to get a can of pale ale for a shandy with Sunday dinner… I can see the fancy metal and enamel work on the frying range at the chippie, and I can taste the sherbet lemons from the big jars in the sweet shop. Use all your senses.

Of course there is another meaning – to shop someone – to dob them in or report them to the authorities.

What happens to whom, why, how, where and when?

Stories, poems and any creative writing sparked off by the word ‘shop’, please, to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll hear them at our next meeting on 25th November.