It is undoubtedly autumn. On the theme of falling leaves and the inevitable descent towards the winter solstice, I post a short story that appeared in my 2002 short story collection – Familiar Possessions. In 2011, it was anthologised in Murmurations – the Two Ravens Press collection of uncanny stories about birds. The Rhododendron Canopy […]
Tag: fiction
What Happens Now
Here is a short story of mine, published in 2004 in Dream Catcher magazine. My father does not see me these days. What he sees, I suspect, is from another world and another time. When I visit him, I am a man he does not know, and if he thinks of me, it is as […]
The Capsule
A short story published in the Dream Catcher magazine ‘humour edition’ in 2005. Humour is a considered term. This story is more than a shade dark, perhaps an allegory, perhaps a kind of brutal reality, or speculative fiction. You decide! The Capsule Elizabeth Stott I am Sunman. Here, in the capsule, […]
Flash, Errrrm… and – It’s National Short Story Week!
It’s National Short Story Week. Nearly over… I can recommend Kathleen Jones’ blog on the subject of the short story. National Short Story Week: Last Days, Lost Ways. To celebrate the week, I have been playing with some flash fiction. It’s one way of writing five short stories in a few days. Flash is something I have […]
Settling – Buying Back the Farm
I am posting a little something that has been teasing me. It emerged from the blank page one dark evening earlier this year and I have turned it around a few times to decide whether to progress it . I tried it as a ‘short short story’, which is OK if a bit abrupt. It seems to want […]
The Waitress
Here is a short story told from different points of view, but could be the same person. It doesn’t have to be, I’ll leave it all up to you, dear reader! Please excuse the formatting of paragraph breaks – I am struggling to get WordPress to agree how many lines in Word constitutes a line […]
Blog Tour – The Writing Process – My Turn…
The idea of the writing process is often talked about in creative writing literature. Whatever your take on it, writing well and consistently requires hard work and dedication. Halo not polished enough in my case, but I do know that magical thinking is not enough! Writer Kathleen Jones invited me to follow her in the ‘writing […]
Mrs Wetherby
For Boxing Day, I post a short story set in the Gulf. It is in my Kindle Triplet, This Heat , and was story of the month in Ink Tears earlier this year. MRS WETHERBY Mrs Wetherby teases me, I am sure she does. Her pristine white blouse is like a surgical tent rigged […]
The Hot House
I have been occupied with the fictional world of my novel. Some of it is inspired by my own experience as a child living abroad, but it is all fiction, borrowing my own memories of a place, at time and a ‘micro-culture’, using it as a setting and social workshop. Stealing lives and experiences is something […]
Dead languages, useless knowledge and rocks from outer space
This little ramble is inspired by a memory: my mother once said that she couldn’t understand why Latin – a ‘dead language’- was taught in schools, and why anyone would want to learn anything so useless. Latin is embedded in English grammar along with other linguistic influences, and is our ancient language of prayer and […]
Elizabeth Stott - to Blog or Not 