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• April 9, 2023

  Skanky Sausages and Rancid Rocket.

  The following isn’t a recipe. Once a fortnight, I visit my writing buddy, Abagail Thorne. We spend the morning working through a writerly course and in the afternoon we critique a piece of each other’s writing, learn a facet of our craft, or depending on whether one of us is close to publication, we check…

• October 7, 2021

  Third Place.

  Yesterday I received a notification that I’d won third place in a short story contest. It was a lovely surprise that made my day. The story I submitted, A modern Day Hedge Witch, is based in Galicia and loosely based on a mixture of the characters I’ve come across in this lovely part of Spain,…

• July 4, 2021

  Auntie’s Legacy

  “It’s fine, auntie won’t know and anyhow, what’s the point of having a beach-hut if we can’t use it?” said Libby, rummaging in her enormous bag. The one mum and dad brought back from their trip to Acapulco. A lurid green and yellow stripe with a pink umbrella printed on the front.“But, Libby. Suppose she…