Blooming Lovely

I have an orchid on my kitchen sill.

I leave it be

Water it once a week

It blooms at will

It seems to like the western light

That streams in muted through the seed-pod screen

They seem destined to be

And I am content to let people think

...it was deliberately...

designed by me

Books are perfect gifts

Summer 2012 and I have 5 poems each with a little piece of history attached at The Linnet's Wings which is a surperb publication so please do buy a copy HERE

There's a lot of good stuff in there by other writers too including fellow Ulster writer Marion Clarke.

PANGEA Anthology is also out this month HERE on Kindle £6.86 or in Paperback £8.99 -- Stories by writers from all over the world including myself, Vanessa Gebbie, Sarah Hilary, Joel Willans, Tara Conklin, Jennifer Walmsley, Caroline Robinson, Fehmida Zakeer and many others. It would make a great present for anyone or just treat yourself!

Ether Books, Smashwords, Microhorror, The Red Cross

What do all these things have in common?
ME as it happens :)

Find out how to access/ download these  HERE
This one is for CHARITY

This one is FREEEEEE

and there's a chilling tale in Ether Books -- Plot in the Twist and Darkling in Microhorror. I DARE you to read them all and not shudder :)

Jubilee Poem

Jubilant


Celebration
Chink of glasses
Toasts and speeches
Roasts and peaches
Cream and scones and jam, jam, jam
Smear the mustard on the ham
Let the lettuce wilt and wither
Throw poor crusts beneath the table
Eat as much as you are able
Watch the ice-cream slide and slither
Watch the jelly wibble-wobble
Stick a sausage on the Bar-be
Sing your anthems hale and hearty
Come along and join the party
Lamprey pie and puddings bake
Choose a queen to put a crown on.
It’s all money. Ask a Banker.
Down the tubes? You f*n wanker.
What’s she say? Let them eat cake.




© 2012 Oonah V Joslin

Anthologies and Competition

I am in two Anthologies coming out this year, Pangea is the Anthology for WriteWords.co.uk and will be out this summer.

New Rising Sun for the victims of the Japanese Tsunami will be out in September.

At the moment they are publishing other pieces by contributing writers on their Blog.


CUTS seemed appropriate to the theme. Where ever you are on Earth the human condition applies. Let us never forget our common humanity.

Don't forget our COMPETITION at EDP is continuing throughout May!
So go along there and read some terrific poems and stories and keep going back for more.

Meeting in York

One of the best rewards of writing is getting to make new cyber friends and when I manage to meet up with some of them in real space it is very special and so this was a special moment.

Writer Jennifer Walmsley and her husband Chris with myself and Noel in York March 2012. We had a great time!

And so this is Christmas

May it be as Merry or as Peaceful as you wish it to be!

I have several stories and poems up this month and I will add all the links to date by the end of this week. But let me begin with what Nathan Rosen tells me is my 72nd microhorror and one of his favourites of mine.

If you ask me, Santa brought it on himself by embracing the commercial ethos of the late twentieth century and disregarding his 'elf ;) and you can read the outcome in ELF DAY live at Microhorror now.
Poems at Bewildering Stories

A Final Seal 
Department Store

If Ever - Pantoum for the Present - in Parallel Oonahverse


A little unexpectedly, this very short short in Postcardshorts Public Transport You know the scenario - it a familiar one. So glad to be in this little gem of a writing site for the first time. And Crumpled Note - a scenarion familiar I hope, to no one.

The Linnet's Wings has published a very short piece entitled I'd Love a ... and I'll bet anyone my age at least in the UK and Ireland will be able to fill in the blank :) It was the perfect solution to the the Christmas Eve problem of how to be Santa.

Look below and you'll find an intriguing clue to my BOXING DAY story at Every Day Fiction. My Measuring Stick

Apollo's Lyre has just published Nobody in the Room. and while you're there check out this story by my friend John Ritchie