Tag Archives: stories

Tell me a story!

You don’t have to be a writer… you can be an editor, artist, musician, traveller or poet… just be you. That is always enough and means there are always stories to share. Why not share them here and reach new … Continue reading

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Read John Maberry’s new short story collection The Fountain – FREE – 25 to 27 August… from Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

From The Story Reading Ape: Humor, twists and more in this collection of seven fantasy and sci-fi short stories. Karma can be painful in “The Fountain”–when a plunderer meets a long-dead shaman. A family adopts a retriever with special talents … Continue reading

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Guest writer: Jennie Fitzkee – The Spider Story

“Oh, Sue. I need to tell you “The Spider Story”, one of the ‘Jennie Stories’ for my preschoolers. All true. That’s why children are glued when I say, “It happened like this.” The spider one beats them all, ” wrote … Continue reading

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Guest Photographer and Storyteller: Cybele Moon – aka the Dune Mouse

I stumbled across a site with an intriguing title, strange and magical stories, illustrated with the most fabulous photographs. Loving the atmospheric artistry, I invited the photographer over to be my guest… An excerpt from the Dune Mouse Chronicles Many … Continue reading

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Lantern by Bernadette #writephoto

Scheherezade looked at the street lantern and knew it was time to leave for the King’s chamber.  A thousand nights had passsed and thousand tales had been told… Continue reading here: Lantern #writephoto

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A book by its cover

I couldn’t sleep. The outline of a story kept rolling around in my mind. This is unusual; ideas, yes…. those are incessant. Phrases that contain a story or a concept …but an actual, fictional story, start, middle and finish… that’s … Continue reading

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Multitasking

It has been a hugely busy day, in spite of wanting mainly to curl up and whimper. I’m not particularly good at being unwell, and anyway, I have an Ani to look after, a son who doubles as my employer … Continue reading

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Had we but world enough, and time…

There is a lot still to share from the past couple of weeks… Scotland, Lindisfarne, Yorkshire and Derbyshire… let alone the past few days in Buckinghamshire. But it isn’t about the landscape, or the history or the stones and flowers. … Continue reading

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