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

    This week – the prompt is E is for Empty. You can go anywhere with this prompt. What is it that’s empty? A box? A bottle? A petrol tank? A crisp packet? A water butt? A purse? A house? An office block? Someone’s soul? A safe? A cinema, where you’ve gone to watch a film…

  • Short Fiction: Best Before

    One day, if I don’t get to you first, you’ll be as old as me, and you’ll have a kitchen drawer where you’ll keep biros which only work half the time, odd bits of paper for shopping lists, battered boxes of plasters, paracetamols and indigestion tablets, a thermometer, some tweezers, several bits of string that…

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

    This week – the prompt is D is for Dear. There’s dear as in close to your heart; beloved. ‘He is very dear to me.’ Dear also means expensive – the opposite of cheap. And allied to that, it means costly in terms of the effect something can have on someone’s life. ‘He paid a…

  • Poem: A Father Refuses His Daughter’s Choice of Husband

    King Edward was the King of Spuds And Charlotte was his queen. Their daughter, Princess, was The prettiest spud you’ve ever seen. Her father summoned suitors From all across the land To try to impress Princess And maybe win her hand. The suitors all were gathered at A suitor-choosing ball;

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: C is for Common

    This week – the prompt is C is for Common. It could mean ordinary, as in ‘common or garden’ or shared, as in ‘a common purpose’. It could mean things are in great numbers, e.g. ‘Despite technology, notebooks are still common in schools.’ Common could mean being of a low social status, being coarse or…

  • Poem: She Cleans The Tower Ballroom

    She cleans the Tower ballroom Through the darkness of the night, And when her shift is over She lets her mind take flight. She swaps her battered trainers For strappy sequinned shoes And glides onto the dance floor To blow away her blues. She takes up her position, Elegant in foot and hand, And in…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: B is for Ball

    This week – the prompt is B is for Ball. What kind of ball is it? Is it a sports ball? That’ll take you from ping-pong to ten-pin bowling and all stops in between right up to those massive inflatable balance balls. Is it to do with food? Cheese balls, puffball mushroom, doughballs, aniseed balls,…

  • Poem: Better Than Nothin’

    ‘What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?’ The first one asked as he ordered some wine; ‘I’m researching a book that you could help me with,’ She said, ‘It’s all about out-dated chat-up lines,  So push off. Here’s your wine, Sling your hook, go away. I’m not talking to you, not…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: A is for Attract, Attraction or Attractive

    This week – the prompt is This week – the prompt is A is for Attract, Attraction or Attractive Obviously there’s attraction between people, but animals do some weird things to attract a mate. Your story could be about trying to attract someone’s attention: in a restaurant, or to warn of danger (like in the…

  • Poem: What Don’t You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

    I don’t want to be a singer, I don’t want to drive a train. I don’t want to be a teacher, ’Cos teachers are a pain. I don’t want to be a footballer, Don’t want to be a cleaner; Don’t want to work an ice-cream van Or be a ballerina. I don’t want to be…

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