Mikeyboy

lol! This feels authentic.

“Ben, she’s lovely. So slender” Aunt Ada raised her Bailey’s to my new girl.
My sister picked at her turkey, “Thin. You need hips to carry a child.”
I pulled my girl into the kitchen, the door ajar to listen.
“Yes, she’s pretty but is she marriage material?”
I’d already decided she was.
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I wondered if it was Cambodia. Chilling. Good luck.

horrific - great contrast.

Madeline you are always so generous with feedback - thank you.

oh this is good.

I hear a road. Cars. Lorries. A motorbike. I feel vibrations in the floor. I’ve been unconscious but I don’t know for how long. I taste blood. I’m bruised. I’m cold. My hands and ankles are bound. I wear a tight blindfold. A child has been singing nursery rhymes to me but I know I’m alone. #WriteCBC

Thank you

Very chuffed

It will be you next month

Thanks

Thank you

Wow, with so many brilliant entries I'm over the moon to win.
Congratulations to the runners up, great work, and isn't this a fun prompt competition to enter each month.
Thank you CBC and to Rowan Coleman for choosing my snippet.

Thanks, given your entries in this comp, that’s lovely to hear.

lol, had me laughing at the unexpected turn!

It looks like a natural, blood-veined, spherical stone, shined and sea smoothed, found on a beach. It was crafted from a cut umbilical cord, resin preserved. She sits on the bed, hugs it, as she rocks back and forth, softly singing “Bring back, oh bring back, bring back my Bonnie to me.”
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Flaps are lifted, then let slam, blocks are shifted and knocked about. Science is fun my girlfriend says, as her 5 year old, not mine, rocket flies around in this hellish cavern. He sticks a finger where he shouldn’t. I distract my girlfriend, leave him to endure the pain a little longer. #WriteCBC

#WriteCBC task from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social: Start with your character opening the door to a stranger. Use specific details to introduce this stranger and to hint at how their relationship might unfold. Do they trust each other? Will they fall in love? Or is disaster in their future?

There's two of them.
"Hello, is your Mum in?"
She's got a beaky nose.
"Or Dad?"
He's short and stout. I keep schtum, use my go-away stare.
"A big brother or sister perhaps?"
They run out of options.
"Cat's got his tongue," she laughs to him.
"Nah," I say, slam the door but they'll be back. #WriteCBC

Imagine playing cricket here on a day like today

Ooh yes

“We’ll just pop in here” my wife innocently said. The artist had a picture ready. “Happy Birthday my love.”
I looked, I squirmed, “It’s you as a mermaid.”
“Isn’t it something?”
“Yes,” I grimaced.
At home she told me where to hang it.
I can’t look at it without thinking of leaving her.
#WriteCBC

The Bee includes this thebeemagazine.com/publishings-... by me! Asking what’s changed since the landmark publication of @kitdewaal.com’s Common People & highlighting some new @creativepec.bsky.social research too

#WriteCBC task from @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social: Let’s revisit a classic. You’ve gone to bed and turned off the light, and as you close your eyes, you feel a warm breath come upon your cheek. Your senses are fizzing. There is a new darkness swarming in the corner of your room. What happens next?

Like Stuck in the Mud I can't move while it watches. I want to shout What's the time Mr Wolf and run. In the darkness there's a hovering density. I half-hear a low breeze, myself breathing. My summer dress floats, a human sniffs and I remember the man who stood too close on the tube. #WriteCBC

Poster for info on Stinging Fly Summer School.

Next Thursday, 03 April, 5pm, is the deadline to apply for places in the Summer School from @stingingfly.bsky.social . I'll be running the ONLINE Creative Non-Fiction Workshop. Hope you can join me!

Did this last Summer... Highly recommend. Arnold is a fine tutor.

I bathed long, I had to generously apply body crème to rehydrate my dried skin. I feel heat from bathing but also the coldness of the crème. A noise takes me to the window. I watch the crows cawing, clinging to the branches as the wind whips up strength. A wild storm is coming, as is he. #WriteCBC

A firm shoulder shove, as per instructions, and she’s in. The hall is dark, narrow, and there’s a smell of damp. She flicks the light switch but no light comes on. Climbing the uncarpeted stairs, each step creaks, she pushes open what could be her bedroom door and shrieks. No, not this. #WriteCBC