Writing Group: Come Inside - Idea for Kids' Story
Can you continue this story? Rosie was hungry. ‘Is tea nearly ready?’ she moaned. Her brother joined her in her moaning. ‘I need a...
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Fun With Books
The waiting room was warmer than the street. Jemima knew that because when she puffed her breath out she couldn't see it rising like...
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Poem from a Dog
Hello, my name is Suzie. I sleep on Max's bed. Looking at the nice view I rest my furry head. I see other houses, I see lots of cars,...
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Braids and Shaves
There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. But let’s be clear here: the little girl was 17...
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Star Trek Christmas Jumpers
S: I must confess, Captain, I know there to be something unwholesome about this unusual tradition of the wearing of Christmas jumpers. K:...
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poem: for morri
Happy birthday Morrigan, my gorgeous bonkers Morrigan. Have a really happy birthday - have a One Direction day! Liam pours your orange...
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poem: for corm
For my beloved Cormac on his eighth birthday: The day has come when now you're eight. I can't believe it's true. Is Cormy really eight...
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poem: he squat in the carbuncle
Talking nonsense. My writing group, as was usual, asked us to put together a nonsense piece of work (more nonsense than usual). Here is...
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Only Time Will Tell
Her bed is too high - a midi sleeper - and I can barely reach over to her as she lies on the other side. She faces the wall and I can...
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Two Contemporary Poems I LOVE
John Cooper Clarke - “Day My Pad Went Mad” I’m ankle deep in human waste The toilet has been clogged Marrowbone jelly all over the place...
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Creatures of Habit
Dark knew there was something different about that day. His eyes hadn't yet adjusted to the glare of the morning light streaming in...
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Eric the X-Ray Fish
Eric is a x-ray fish. Just in case you were wondering, yes, he is transparent and looks like an x-ray of a fish, where you can see his...
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Family
It had been a tricky day at school for Dana. She'd been on the planet for over 11 years, and at her new high school for only a few weeks,...
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Piggy in his Pocket
There must have been some extra toys in the box. Too many. So many, in fact, that its lid wasn't closing, and Jack, possessing only a...
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Poem: How He Cares
The Chimney Sweep I'm very small and only five, The food I eat only just keeps me alive. My boss is so mean, so mean and nasty He...
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In and Out
Believe me, I’ve attempted, on occasions too frequent to count, to find beauty and attraction in the avarice and greed proudly on display...
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Childish Conversation
Child: My day is totally spoiled now. Mum: What do you mean? What happened? Did the school burn down with all the children in it? Did...
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Christmas Dreams
It was Christmas morning, and they’d run out of milk because Colin refused to get involved in the pre-Christmas shopping frenzy. So,...
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The Smile When Things Go Right
You know that completely remarkable thing about Dan, and his life. The most, most utterly wonderful and inexplicably amazing thing about...
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Snowed In
None of us had been snowed in before, and we weren’t expecting it this time. Nobody would have come to the party on Stefan’s farm, had...
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