Blogging

Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/sunday-poser/ My initial reason for blogging was to promote my novel ‘‘It Won’t Happen Again’’. My daughter helped with the book cover and design for ‘‘Writer Ravenclaw’’. Although I never got the sales I hoped for, I found a group of talented authors with a like-minded love of writing. I started taking partContinue reading “Blogging”

No Fun

Written for https://thesoulsearchersite.wordpress.com/category/6wsp/ When having fun; honour respect. I wrote this because sometimes when somebody thinks of it as, just a bit of fun, it isn’t like that for other people around them. We need to teach the younger generation to empathise with others. As a victim of bullying, when I was younger, it stripsContinue reading “No Fun”

Curly

Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/07/11/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-july-12-2025/ As a girl, my hair was always straight, ong, and the only way to get a curl into it was to have a perm. I remember sitting in my sister’s kitchen with the solution, which smelled like it was going to burn through my skin, pasted on my scalp. Waiting for aContinue reading “Curly”

Nothing to Fear

Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/reenas-xploration-challenge-389/ School is like standing in the middle of a hurricane. At least that’s what she believed as she hovered beside the entrance of this new secondary school. She glued on her mask and slipped into copy mode. With a smile forced into place, she walked over the threshold. ‘Ode to Joy,’ sheContinue reading “Nothing to Fear”

Safe

Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ ‘Be safe, little fledgling,’ Clara said, wrapping her hazel wings about her red breast. Her claws gripped on to the hollow branch , observing his tiny feathers finding the strength to lift himself into the evening sky. The sun shifted over the canopy, glowing through a thick mass of green leaves. HidingContinue reading “Safe”

Human

Written for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-374/ Humans are a breed like no other. We are the only creatures who can communicate with each other using words; written, spoken and even in pictures. Unfortunately, we have made the wrong decisions despite our power. It isn’t the animals who have created climate change, destroyed rainforests, or exposed the ozone layerContinue reading “Human”