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Author: Carol

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: X is for All Sorts of Things

    X can be used in voting, or on very old documents such as marriage certificates, where if someone couldn’t read they would mark an x instead of signing; you use it playing noughts and crosses, marking things as wrong, or denoting a location on a treasure map; it’s the horizontal axis on a graph, it’s…

  • Short Fiction: Parcelwatching

    I was watching my phone to get some clue as to when my parcel would arrive. It was to come from Peterborough to just outside Cambridge, a distance of some 36 miles. It arrived, 277 miles later. That’s over seven and a half times the distance it should have gone. What had happened? Where had…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: W is for Watch

    So, we have watch as in a timepiece. What’s it’s significance? What’s it look like? Is it antique? Worth any money or does it have sentimental attachment?  Why could somebody be looking at their watch? Is someone late, or early? There’s watch as in to look at something, to observe it – TV, cinema, wildlife,…

  • Poem: My Spam Folder

    The volume of emails coming into your inbox Is often alarming, I think you’ll agree. Thanks heavens we’ve all got our spam filters working Or else we’d be drowning in a spam email sea. My spam filter roots out the dodgy and scammy The grifters, the venal, the thick and the strange; So I’ve braved…

  • Poem: The Usual Routine

    Every morning, seven-fifteen Sydney showered, short but keen, Ate his breakfast, washed the bowl Listening to some rock and roll Flossed and brushed his teeth with care, Cleaned his glasses, combed his hair, Donned his shirt and tie and suit, Pulled on each well-polished boot; Grabbed his briefcase, coat and hat, Left the house and…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: V is for Volume

    Well, there’s volume as in sound level. What is the sound? Is it loud or soft? What effect does it have? When is it happening? Is it a good sound or a bad sound? It could be the sound of someone breathing, or someone mowing their lawn at three o’clock in the morning.

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: U is for Unusual

    This week – the prompt is U is for Unusual. Unusual. Out of the ordinary. Something you wouldn’t expect. Strange. Different. Not normal. It could be something out of place… a window open when it shouldn’t be or a door closed when it should be open. Maybe it’s somebody who shouldn’t be where they are,…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: T is for Track

    This week – the prompt is T is for Track. As a noun, there’s track as in a footpath, a track as in a running track, or track as in an individual song an LP/CD.  Animals leave tracks through the woods or in the snow. Railway tracks criss-cross the country, and it used to be…

  • Short Fiction: The Same Every Time

    I turned my car towards the hotel with some trepidation, to be honest, even though I knew exactly what was going to happen. I didn’t want to go there at all, and if I thought I could have got away with it I’d have gone straight past and ignored her, but I knew she’d have…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: S is for Stand

    This week – the prompt is S is for Stand (or stood). So, you can stand as in literally ‘rise to’ or ‘be on’ your feet.  It’s also a way of saying someone’s height – Journeyman Tom stands 6’ 7”. Your hair stands on end. It can mean ‘to place something’: on the top table…