January 2016 ~ Helen Hagemann

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Flash, a very short story!

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Children's Poetry - a selection of three ©

The Subject Tonight is Towel The subject tonight is towel And from tomorrow night And days after Dad has no better topic For us to discuss Until we all Hang up our towel After showering. Walls Some people love walls. They keep in yelping dogs, But never cats or birds. No one sees them talking at night Yet walls do talk – to each other. They compare...

An Ekphrastic Poem: Reinventing The Scream ©

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Grammar Police

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Flash Fiction: Is it the Flowers or Little Bells that are Chiming?

Is it the Flowers or Little Bells that are Chiming? The sound comes up over the roof and travels towards a rear window. In the early morning the noise peals and rips the air like unexpected thunder. Already at four am, the call is heard in the street; the only street that goes from pastured lakes and kangaroos to paths that lead to untended bush land. One wakes to this...

Tilting the Train Looking at my watch I notice that I have just missed the 5.10 train. Of all days, I am wet through standing on the Summerville platform, the wind howling along the tracks all the way to the coast. I am alone, except for an old drunk swearing into his tattered mac; most probably his anger rising from an empty swig of a papered bottle. ...