Fantasy. Words: 389. An earlier version of this piece was first published in Anatomy 1998, Writing Magazine for NTU. There is a girl in the well. There is a girl in the well, in the green bluebell dell, at the bottom of the garden. For as long as I can remember, she has been there. The [...]
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:58:58
Dark fantasy. Words: 530. Each night he held a sallow vigil upon the broad window ledge. As he waited, he would nurse a candle in his hands, focusing steadily upon the flickering light, or passing his finger through the flame. He kept the attic room bare but for a mattress of straw. Cobwebs hung in [...]
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:58:58
Dark fantasy. Words: 933. Recently published in Hub Magazine. The boy dreams in his bed in the big house above the village. He sees a forest where moss drips from the trees and the shady hangings of convolvulus bind to form a curtain that keeps out the sun. Lords-and-Ladies cluster on the woodland floor, amongst the [...]
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:58:57
Life is a funny old thing, she said, beginning a blog post with a cliché. I haven’t written here for some time. In fact, as a formerly dedicated nonnie with an excess of pseudonymous tentacles, I haven’t written anything anywhere for a long time. What’s worse, the watery well of inspiration that I fish for [...]
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:14:57
I’ve been tagged in a writer’s blog hop by the lovely Charlotte Strong. This seems as good a time as any to get back into the swing of occasional blogging, as after a break of over a year I have gently started to write again. The idea of this meme is that once someone has [...]
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:00:19
First published on the 29th September 2010 on The Cola Factory. Third in our series ‘My Fantasy World’, author and zombie shoe owner Emma Jane Davies pulls back the curtain on what inspired her to get into writing fantasy. Fantasy and science fiction have always been a part of my life. I grew up in [...]
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:25:03