I just checked the results of the Costa Short Story Award and my story wasn’t even short-listed. Here it is: Three Way Family Favourites The silence of number thirty two Edmund Road is broken by the rattling of the key in the lock. The door swings open into the dim hallway, welcoming the mid-morning May […]
Day: December 3, 2015
‘Essence’ by Kate Dempsey
Source: ‘Essence’ by Kate Dempsey
The Wisdom of Trees
Inspired by the reflections of Hermann Hesse Trees are potent preachers, growing together In woods and copses or standing solitary. The world rustles in tree tops And their roots reach to infinity. Nothing is holier or as perfect, As a handsome, robust tree. A felled tree reveals its naked wounds, A story told in […]
Another image…
taken on my Wednesday walk. Tree Bare branches hold sky At the end of a long day Letting light refract Allowing the tender touch To penetrate its tree-ness © Kim M. Russell, 2015
Day 2 of the 5 day photo story challenge
Reminder of the Challenge Guidelines: Post a picture each day for five consecutive days. Attach a story to your image. Can be fiction / non-fiction Poem / short paragraph Each day nominates another blogger Communication Breakdown Words arrive Sporadically On cards I scribed To myself And slipped into the post box Memories Of hours spent […]