At the dead of night.
“Its a job Peter, I know it is not the job you hoped for, but it’s a job. Times are hard and with another bairn on the way your mam will not be able to take in washing. I promise…
Iris and Faith
Looking back no one realised that the entry of the small craft would change the way we looked at our world. Like Darwin on the Beagle, Iris and Faith had travelled the ocean. Iris like Darwin had held a profound…
Into the Closet
Peter please take the axe, then go down to the cellar and fetch some firewood back. But mum Rawhide is on the TV. Can’t it wait. No, your father will be back soon, and it would be good to have…
If you use the wrong words.
So many things happening and I am all at six’s and seven’s. So is it the time to take a walk. If only to remind myself of what is good in life. Now I must calm myself, for my harmony…
Waiting for
Prompt photo provided anonymously . I am waiting here you see until the door opens. Then I will know the answer to my question. The trouble is that I have been waiting here rather a long time. I know that…
The Responsible Person
It was the night of the Christmas party. Cook asked Rick to try a sample before she served it. Rick lifted the floor board to retrieve the wine from under the fire stations dining-room floor. Rick decided that he should…
The Inventive Victorian
The smell was terrible, Mary had known things would be hard when she married Thomas. But then they moved into Albert St with its open sewer. Every obnoxious thing possible seemed to use the sewer to reach the stinking river…
A Strange Tale
It was a strange thing thought Lowry, one minute he was an old man in Salford in the midst of a conversation with one of his paintings. The next moment he was standing in the Museum of Modern Art in…