‘The Cinema Experience’ is a 100-word story (drabble). This story was originally written for SpeckLit but was sadly rejected. However, my story finally found a home on the Horror Tree’s ‘Trembling with Fear’. ‘Trembling with Fear’ is a new feature on the Horror Tree website where a short story and four drabbles are published on the website every Sunday. One
‘My Sweet Gift to You’ is a 100-word story (drabble). This story was originally written for the 2016 Reader’s Digest 100-word competition. Sadly, I wasn’t shortlisted, but I did manage to find a home for it on the FridayFlashFiction.com website. For this story, I wanted to try writing in second person present tense. It was a challenge at first –
On Saturday 8th October my writing group took part in the West Bromwich at War event. I mentioned this event in my last post titled ‘Oldbury Writing Group Event – World War Two Anthology Reading’. For the event, we read out a selection of short stories and poems from our soon to be released World War Two anthology titled From
The first thing I learned when I started my writing journey is that you need to be very patient. While it would be great to wait weeks rather than months to know if your story will be published or not, sadly, that’s not always the case. So, how do you cope with waiting months to know whether you can do