Category: Short Story

  • Angel

    Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin… Angel When Angel was 6 years old, she was told she was ugly.  She was at school when she learnt this.  A trio of blonde, mean little girls who always seemed to be dressed in varying shades of bright pink sought Angel out in the playground to tell…

  • Fishing

    Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin… Fishing In a place not far from you and I, near a highway and beyond the hills began the beginning of a beautiful day. The sort of day described in children’s stories.  The sort day that ought to have begun with ‘Once Upon a Time.’  Maybe it had. On…

  • The Lamppost

    Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin… The Lamppost As is often with small communities or villages or clumps of houses, there is a focal point. Commonly it is the ale house, although for some it could be the church or the post office, for others a park or a pond, somewhere wives met to…