Cherry

Looking after Mum: Chapter 3

I went to the admissions immediately, and said falteringly to the young woman at reception, "Um...my name's Amelia Steptoe, and my dad told me to come here, um…"
Cherry

Looking after Mum : Chapter 2

My first instinct was to panic. My heart started thumping about in my chest, like a one-man army, and I felt dizzy and sick. I sat down on the sofa, and put my head between my legs.
Cherry

Looking after Mum: Chapter 1

13 year old Amelia comes home to school one day to find a note. A note that will send her already miserable life out of its orbit.
Cherry

A Dickens of a Feud

We become what we hate and fear, do we not? About someone not so dear to my heart...

Wall Mural In An Alleyway

Pictures on a wall , but no one hears the echoes of an artist's call .

Hopebroken

Edited version with alternative ending.

THE MANNY

A young man joins a family in suburbia.

Unfortunate through life

I hated doing what my mum forcingly made me do. For example milking the cows, or perhaps feeding the chickens or watering the plants.
Cherry

Lupus

The night was calling to me. I tasted metal in the back of my mouth, between my teeth. I knew by now to watch and obey the signs. I knew what was going to happen, with the night so hungry for me.
Cherry

Self-discovery

At the primary school, draw a stick along the railings until you play the theme from the cricket, Booker T’s Soul Limbo , then just before the Hammond organ’s

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