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Real
That was the start of it, the vigils. Every night at the foot of the Gilt Spears a group of people congregated in a housing estate to look up at the stars. Housewives with working away husbands, fractious toddlers hanging upside down in their grim grip, wailing at the night. Comic book men with costume…
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#fridayflash MESSAGE
HELLO THIS IS EARTH WE ARE HUMAN HUMAN COME BACK I SAW YOUR LIGHTS YOU ARE NOT ALONE DON’T BE SCARED I LOVE YOU COME BACK THIS IS EARTH HUMAN WE ARE HUMAN
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#fridayflash Ode to Morrison
This is one of many many interrelated flashes. This is for lovely Morrison from The Solid Table Fallacy. If you’d like to see me reading it instead Click Here. Ignore the robot time check near the end. I suppose it won’t surprise you to know that I’m a little bit in love with Morrison Pentworthy.…
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Send
Send me a secret story in a song just for me Send me a grain of dust Send me a heartbeat flipped, squeezed with lemon juice, soaked with sugar Send me the sharp stars Send me the winks in the water Send me Send me songs, photographs, breaths, petals, kisses, muddy puddles Send send Send…
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#fridayflash Reunion
They met again in a supermarket. It was Christmas Eve and everyone was there. All around the shop assaults of memory, surreptitious sightings of people from the past, back, nasty girls from school now snapped and pummeled, lost boys made good in chinos and suits, friends of her mother patting her arm in the biscuit…
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Self-published in a bookshop
On writing.ie I share what I have learned so far about getting your self-published book into a (I am stocked in Dubray books in Bray and in Hughes and Hughes stores in Dublin) and about bookshop launches, as well as the success of a self-published author in the UK at getting his book stocked at…
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Writing and Life: What to do when you just can’t
When my youngest child of four started school in September I thought that I would blog about that. After all this blog is called Head above Water, it’s about the years of juggling life and writing when the kids were very small. After almost twelve years, with all the children now in school I’ve entered…
Welcome to my Head above Water blog! I’m Alison, writer, mother and public librarian with a background in Communication Studies and Psychology. I have a particular interest in creative resilience, motivation and how nature and wonder can restore us. In my day job I run book clubs and creative events for children and adults.
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