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Author: Carol

  • Song: Hotel Can’taffordmore

    On a dark dual carriageway, cool wind in my hair, Warm smell – sugar beet dust – rising up through the air. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a flickering light; I’d worked my hours to the max that day, I had to stop for the night. There she stood in reception, like she’d…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: H is for Hotel

    Plenty of scope for stories and poems here. First of all, the hotel itself. How big is it? Is it a magnificent, expensive place, or is it quiet and cosy, or run-down and in need of some TLC?  How many rooms? The more rooms, the more stories that take place in those rooms. Who’s staying…

  • Poem: Rosie’s Garden

    Oh tell me, Rosie; Rosie, tell: What makes your garden grow so well? Each plant in its rightful place Grows and blossoms, given space. If the plants are to succeed Food and water’s all they need. Water? In the morning’s best; Watch out for disease and pest;

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: G is for Garden

    You can just describe a garden if you like – let us really picture it in our mind’s eye. Is it formal? Informal? Large? Small? Modern? Traditional? You could write a piece about what you get out of a garden – whether it’s actual produce or flowers, or whether it’s inner peace and a state…

  • Poem: Freeing My Mind

    I tried to free my mind from all the things I had to do: Cook the dinner, do the washing, walk the dog and clean the loo. My list grew ever longer and I so wanted to bin it But the more I tried to free my mind, the more things came back in it.…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: F is for Free or Freedom

    What does freedom mean to you? There are many types of freedom – freedom from slavery/ pain/ hate; free from restrictive shackles; freedom from unhappy relationships; freedom as in off the leash. There are different interpretations of free: unoccupied – is this seat free?; free – not paid for; free – as in loosening something…

  • Poem: The Internet Date

    I didn’t expect you to turn up – Nobody’s turned up before. I’ve had people say that they would do; Not one of them’s come through that door. I didn’t expect you’d be handsome – Your photo was quite true to life. I didn’t expect you’d be single – With your looks you should have…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: E is for Expecting

    Who or what were you expecting? Where? Why? Why is it important? Does it matter if it gets there on time? What happens after it turns up? Oh, the anticipation! How does your character feel about it? It could be an object, or a result of an exam or a test or the result of…

  • Poem: On Being Offered A Lift

    Thank you for the offer but I’d rather catch the bus. I know it’s less convenient but please don’t make a fuss. You want to know the reason why? Sit down, I’ll tell you true: I’d rather walk to where I’m going than get in a car with you… Because…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: D is for Drive

    Various forms of transport: car, bus, train, tram, trolleybus, steamroller, tractor, ambulance, military vehicle… Is your character doing the driving, or are they being driven? Where to? What for? Who’s with them? What are they feeling? Excited / anxious/ scared /bored / filled with dread? Do they have to be somewhere at a certain time?…