Archive for November, 2010

‘She watched old films with her mother’ by Jen Stark

By a footpath at the side of the road, a woman walks unseen through night. In her hand she carries a diary from her youth, filled with all the loves, wars and scars from her childhood. Some had healed.
It took fifteen minutes for Alyssa to find the spot, and for fifteen years she had slept [...]

Stocking up for Christmas

So Christmas is on its way, as it always is at this time of year. I’m at quite a loose end this time around, as I won’t be spending it at my mothers or back in Manchester like I did last year. I’ll be alone. Well, I’ll be with the cats of course, but I’ll [...]

Missing Manchester

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. – Christian Morgenstern
Firstly, please accept my apologies for not updating this blog as much as I would’ve liked. I’m afraid sometimes life just gets in the way, and there are other things that take priority. I suppose this is just part and parcel of [...]