Twenty
people took part in the three creative writing sessions held by Anne
Hamblen a local writer and creative writing tutor.
Below are some of the stories which people who attended the course
wrote, read by the people who wrote them.
Broken
by- Anne Hamblen
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| Anne
Hamblem |
"
The history of our marriage is littered with his breakage's... the
cracked bathroom mirror, I have looked at my self morning and night
for so many years that I sometimes think that it has etched itself
not as a slashed scar across my face but on my mind....."
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The Ambassadors - By Kay Massey
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| Kay
Massey |
"
It wasn't until the drink was on the bar and I was told the exuberant
price of it that I realised that my purse was in my bag in the car
I searched my pockets which divulged 17p....."
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Twilight- By Ron Wright
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| Ron
Wright |
"
On retirement he was given a carriage clock, little recognition for
40 odd years at the same firm, where his whole existence revolved
around the clock his comings and goings recorded on the time machine..."
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The Oasis - by Sylvia Wright
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| Sylvia
Wright |
"Ann
can you hear me? I heard his question and tried to nod my head but
I was distracted by an awareness of movement somewhere in the murky
fog ahead of me, I was trying hard to concentrate there seemed to
be a dark shape forming in the mist...."
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Phone
home - By Ann Dunstone
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| Ann
Dunstone |
"
My yearning for home was a constant pain, I fought
with the conflict of my desire to teach, my need to study and my
longing to be at home. The image of my family sitting at home on
a Sunday night without me joining in with singing something simple
was hard to bear...."
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The
Find a man campaign -by Liz Barton
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| Elizabeth
Barton |
"
My first effort was a grab a granny evening but not on my own and
to save me from the rose tinted hue of alcohol I offered to drive.
The venue was as seedy as the proceedings I watched the twinkling
and flattering as the lonely and disenfranchised were herded together
in the vain hope that some sort of connection would happen...."
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Halloween -by Maureen Matkin
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| Maureen
Matkin |
"
Ali didn't see his future as being too bad, he had plans, Bart his
cell mate was an expert in all easy money activities, he had suggested
a joint venture to go into business when they were free of their
present restraints...."
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Hook,
line and sinker- by Barbara Adamson
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| Barbara
Adamson |
"
I must be careful not to look like mutton dressed as lamb forty
candles on the cake last month came as a bit of a shock but if I
can surface from a tacky divorce still smiling what does another
year matter. It seemed longer than a week since I read his cryptic
message in the personal ads...."
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Aunt Ellen - by Patricia Brown
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| Patrica
Brown |
"
My Aunt was a lovely person little and jolly but her husband was
a grumpy old so and so. My sister Ann was four years younger than
me but we got along smashing. My aunt was my father's sister and
I used to ask her where he was Oh he's off fighting somewhere I
don't think she wanted to talk about it".
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