Inheritance

Right now, in the attic of a Vermont farmhouse, a pregnant woman is kneeling on the dusty floor holding a letter and feeling the terrible folds of a fairytale settle around her. Like most things found in attics, the letter is not hers – not originally, anyway, although an inheritance and the problems of heredity

Unjoynt

A silly piece from an old prompt that said: Write a piece of less than 250 words, beginning with the phrase ‘I couldn’t ask him to do it’. I needed a silly piece because I’ve just had a rejection from a publisher. It’s a shame, because I put an awful lot of work into the

Promise

A writerswrite.co.za prompt: Write about a promise that lasted a lifetime. The air was still clearing when the clouds began to part and a weak sun shone through. Sitting exhausted on the sodden ground, watching the animals stream down the gangway ignoring the man who had saved them, Noah felt a characteristic rumbling inside his

Vignette

Another block-breaking exercise from writerswrite.co.za: Write a vignette describing a moment in time, which shows what your protagonist’s family is like. As you can see, I’m still depressed as buggery. We are in our 15th week of lockdown in Sydney, Term 4 beckons like a root canal, and I’m all out of alternative career ideas.