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Published in The Howling Owl

·1 day ago

Books I’d Take to a Deserted Island

Not the same as my favourite books — My good friend on Medium, Rodrigo S-C, tagged me to participate in the prompt: Seven Books I would take to a deserted island. Sharing Words also tagged me. I love being tagged by a Medium chum; it’s such a fillip to write. At first I seized on my seven favourite…

The Howling Owl

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Books I’d Take to a Deserted Island
Books I’d Take to a Deserted Island

Published in The Howling Owl

·Aug 10

Have You Been to Harrods Recently?

A tale of our times… — My cousin hadn’t been for twenty years. She used to go every Christmas with her husband. They were both teachers and always did their Christmas shopping in a rush before the holidays. Past the green-liveried doormen she sailed, expecting to find the charming repository of fine but affordable gifts and…

The Howling Owl

4 min read

Have You Been to Harrods Recently?
Have You Been to Harrods Recently?

Published in The Memoirist

·Aug 5

One-Size-Fits-All Mother

For sale — Next to Morden tube station was a shop with a long curved window filled with pipes and ashtrays and lighters and sundry items such as standard one-size-fits-all mothers. It was a tiny shop, mostly counter and shelves of tobacco in crackling packets and cigars in tins. A glass cabinet displayed…

Memoir

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One-Size-Fits-All Mother
One-Size-Fits-All Mother

Published in The Howling Owl

·Aug 3

The Great Philosophers Got It Wrong

Mankind’s urges are simple and universal — It was that barren time, the week between Christmas and New Year, where in the UK half of mankind is off work and blissfully bored. To kill a few hours, my husband and I drove to a historic house and garden. At the entrance to the historic park that encompassed…

The Howling Owl

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The Great Philosophers Got It Wrong
The Great Philosophers Got It Wrong

Published in The Howling Owl

·Jul 27

Summer, and the Pond’s a Theatre

What a performance — The pond is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. A gobble and a burble as the water, freshly regurgitated from the pump, tumbles in fat bubbles like the croaks from some giant frog. The fountain spills its froth of white with a constant…

The Howling Owl

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Summer, and the Pond’s a Theatre
Summer, and the Pond’s a Theatre

Published in The Shortform

·Jul 20

David Sedaris Gave Me Writing Advice

It was spot-on — My cousin and his lovely partner have been visiting from Canada. To be fair, my cousin has a passable haircut, and he doesn’t wear one of those red and white jackets with a giant maple leaf on the back. (Have you looked at a Canadian recently? …

Humour

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David Sedaris Gave Me Writing Advice
David Sedaris Gave Me Writing Advice

Published in The Memoirist

·Jul 19

Death’s Teeth

Have the last laugh — We attended hospital every day for weeks until death was so imminent we could not count on it to arrive during daylight. Now there was no hope, they moved her to a room at the far end of the corridor, far away from the nurses’ station. …

Memoir

4 min read

Death’s Teeth
Death’s Teeth

Published in The Memoirist

·Jul 14

My Life as a Missionary

Pure pie-in-the-sky — When I was a child, my mother suggested that I might like to become a missionary when I grew up. She often professed things she did not believe. But being young, I was not yet conscious of her true nature, so I entertained the idea. ‘But how will I live?’…

Memoir

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My Life as a Missionary
My Life as a Missionary

Jul 12

A Small Suggestion

Is a fragile thing —

Short Form

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A Small Suggestion
A Small Suggestion
Photo by Florian Schmetz on Unsplash

A Small Suggestion

Is a fragile thing

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Published in The Howling Owl

·Jul 6

I’m not saying it was the Windows’ Fault

But it was at that house our family unravelled — I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a fine window in the facade of a pretty building can bestow. With apologies to Jane Austen I’m not an architect and know little of lines and light and angle, but windows move me. …

The Howling Owl

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I’m not saying it was the Windows’ Fault
I’m not saying it was the Windows’ Fault
Michelle Scorziello

Michelle Scorziello

I am a special needs teacher who loves to read and write.

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