topic: HOME medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Home Sweet Home” Event My family used to go on holiday to a farm house every year, for two weeks in the rural Portugal. The sea was not far away, you could smell it in the otherwise sun scorched air. My siblings […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT She had never touched him before. Not as his friend, not as a woman. When she stroked his cheek it was to say good-bye but her hand began to tingle. It was an electrified tingle which made it’s way up her arm, down her […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” I’m about to leave you. And it’s breaking my heart. It’s hard to leave, harder than I expected. Our love affair began when you invited me to come and visit you. You’ve always been […]

topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT With her feet bare and the street steaming, I imagine Vera standing outside the railway station, on the day she turned her fate around. Her departure was not about going somewhere, it was about leaving behind what was hers. It was a typical day for […]