harrietmacmillan

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I have 34 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 17448 times and 10 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Harriet MacMillan

My stories

Magpie Mile

When loneliness was a curse, I would mumble out that verse, As I tumbled through the hollow. A single magpie did follow. One for sorrow, two for joy.
Poem of the week

Unquestioning

If you are asking me if I love you, The answer is hours and days and weeks long. The answer is moonlit mornings, and arid nights When not even the draught from my single-glazing

The Pilgrim Soul

Written as part of a response exercise, designed as a reply to W.B. Yeats' 'When You Are Old and Grey'

The Plague

Written recently about a traumatic experience I had with an alcoholic lady when I was 17 years old.

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