‘Summer Holiday 2020 (post Covid)’ by poet Carmel Gibbons. This poem offers an endearing insight into the depth of long-lasting love. The love is revealed through a recollection of a first trip away in the strange summer of 2020. We set out on your birthday We two Searching for comfort Redemption, salvation. The car sagged …
It was during the first Lockdown that I started to write. My partner, now husband (another Lockdown tale) happened to mention that he was going to write a story. This got me to thinking, I could write a story too. In the end I wrote more than he did, even entered a few competitions. Didn’t win, but …
I wrote this story on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice in 2018. Whilst the story is a work of fiction, it is based on the death of a young soldier who actually existed and was tragically killed just weeks before the war ended. What fired my imagination was the fact that this young soldier’s …
‘I wanted to get into the head of an evacuee, did she have any idea what was happening?’ Juliet Killey She told me it was an adventure, no fussing, and a surprise would be in the bag. No peeking. On the platform though, I smelled a rat. It was all sobbing and twitching. Kissing my …