The weight of words She wrote gothic horror about lotteries in small towns with small minds and houses on hills whom she imagined were alive. She wrote of madness and young girls trying to escape the future that awaited them. She wrote humorous short stories about being a housewife in the 1950s and the mayhem…
Month: March 2026
Brown Wren
She shuts her mouth and dresses like a brown wren.[1]This villanelle was written during the DRAW (Departing Radically in Academic Writing) Summer School held in December 2025 in response to a workshop delivered by Dr Mellie Green on using the technique … Continue reading She tries to lift her wings, but alas, they are tightly pinned…