Cherrypicked stories

A film is in production based on the life of Lee Miller, fashion model and war photographer. It will be terrible, although it should be brilliant given the subject matter. Anyway, I wrote this: written quasi-ekphrastically about a number of Miller-taken photographs and one of Miller taken by someone else. Anyway, for once, I've explained one. Image source wikimedia, licence CC-by SA 4.0

If only they had a branch of Sainsbury’s in the Mississippi Delta.

Chuck sat on the edge of the bed, staring at his hands. They were smooth, like the hands of a younger man, untouched by hard graft. He was a...

I can visit memories of jostling shrubs with prickles that shook me alive in windy times; Of a new-found cat I named JC who adopted our fam-ily...

Or a nightmare? - (Free image fro Pixabay)

How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.

The knock at the door was timid, and there was a whirring in Max’s head that wouldn’t go away. The tinnitus was getting worse, but it wasn’t that. It...

Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/steve-mason-and-last-day-school-part-one-two Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two...

People confide a lot in me – I have one of those faces, I’m told. It’s not something I go looking for. Today a colleague chose to trust me with some...