The beast burst into life, charging down the hill. Liam leapt aside, stricken dumb in terror. The animal trundled forward, goring their mother in one fatal thrust. She slumped to the ground, blood pumping from her punctured back.
Tag: Writer
A Good Man by Lucía Labarta Escudero
One day, people from the town started getting sick. The teacher stopped giving her lessons. The shop clerk had to close down his shop, the two bakers were not able to bake bread anymore, the priest had to close down the church… Until one morning, Tomás appeared at the doctor’s house with a container full of water.
La Abuela María de Lucía Labarta Escudero
La abuela es tozuda y quiere hacer su voluntad, tiene carácter. La vida la curtió desde muy joven. Tenía apenas 10 años cuando su madre se puso de parto en la cocina; los gritos desgarradores paralizaron a María que, tras unos instantes, salió corriendo a casa de la vecina. Aunque todo acabó bien, jamás olvidaría ese momento.
Su orgullo y alegría de Ela Sandín Prior
Tenía una hermana mayor, Betty, pero nunca se llevaron bien. Ella era demasiado formal, demasiado obediente. También era el orgullo y alegría de su madre, no como ella. Pero no le daba mucha importancia mientras le permitieran salir a explorar y a trepar árboles.
Sin embargo, un día su infancia se transformó en algo distinto cuando el ambiente se tornó tenso.
Marina by Laura Velázquez Morales
Marina found herself alone with four children under her wing, and when the government rejected her request for a widow’s pension. They said that her husband was not deceased, and she could not prove her husband’s death. She was forced to sell her brooches, fabrics and everything that her husband, in an attempt to buy her affection, had given her over the years of their marriage.
EP. 28 | ROB M FRANCIS ON the rejection limbo
The thing that bothers me most about rejection are the publishers and editors that don’t bother with replying to the … More
EP. 27 | lisa blower on rejection and class
What I have realised is that publishing is a class issue and a lot of the people reading me are of a different class to what I’m reflecting and certainly the voice I often write in… and so when the rejection comes it really frustrates me because is not the writing they’re rejecting, it’s the class I’m reflecting.
Ep. 24 | Inés G. Labarta on Waking Up at 5am to Write
I really try to write first thing in the morning, before I do anything else, at least anything else that’s mental… because my brain is just too tired after a day of work.
Ep. 20 | Lisa Blower on fitting your writing around your day job
I’d love to say I have a writing routine, but I don’t, I write very sporadically.
Ep. 11 | Ellie Moore
I paint a lot of the landscapes that I see as I’m hiking … sometimes it’s the view I get … More
