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My take on Take is up at EDF today so I hope you'll find time to take a look. This one sprang from a TEFL session about 20 years back. The student asked a simple question. What does 'take' mean?

An exercise for you. On a sheet of paper write down every phrase you can think of containing the word take.
Take in
Taken in
Take out
Take-out
In-take
Out-take

You'll begin to get my drift.

Mashid, thanks for the story, dear. I hope you're well and settled.

Discipline of Shadows

My most recent Micro Horror story went up yesterday. It is called Discipline of Shadows and it's - a dark tale. Okay! Sorry :) See links

50 YEARS AGO

The 11th January 1960 was a Monday too. That was the day our father died and our lives changed irrevocably. Of course life changes irrevocably every day and at every turn but some changes are more significant that others and as changes go it doesn't get bigger than death. At the time I was that little girl you see on my facebook profile.

So I have put a link to The Shine Journal poem The Photograph at the side here. It is about a photo of my sister with daddy on the beach. I don't have a copy of it. In fact I don't have any photographs of my father. Perhaps a family member would like to rectify that - after all we've moved on a bit since 1960 - we have the technology!

Jack Kyle d.11th Jan 1960 aged 48

It's okay for you! You don't have to freeze your paws off every time you need to GO.

2010

All links to my work are now being place to the right hand side of the posts so that they are more easily accessed. I hope this will be more convenient to my readers. Please let me know.


The old year went out with a bang - literally. About 10pm an almighty clap of thunder and a simultaneous flash of purple lightening followed by all the lights going out, persuaded us to switch off our computer and TV for a while. Very strangely weird! Of course the next POP was a champagne cork :) And 2010 looks pretty so far, doesn't it!

My wish for this year - for every year is that mankind see the writing on the wall and stop fighting and start co-operating or there will be no future for the children they all claim to love so much!

Starting well with 3 poems and a flash chosen by the editors of BwS for the Annual Review :)
Sasquatch at Static Movement

Review of the Year

It's been a good one. I tried to count up how many individual pieces of work I'd had published and it was around 75! That is astounding. Amongst the best:

I won my third consecutive Micro Horror Prize with Smolensk the Second Time

First Love took an Honourable Mention in the Binnacle Competition

Every Day Fiction has taken Closer to the Truth for The Best of... 2009

Toe Tags Anthology took The Tourist Trap

Mind Antholgy 'Crazy Days' took Hidden

A man of Few Words Anthology had one of mine.

I was the first ever story in the fledgling mag 10FLASH with The Professional Job

Work by Oonah V Joslin appeared in every Quarterly Review of Bewildering Stories for 2009 and they have taken my Genie of the Jam stories which hopefully will be up in 2010.

I also completed my first year as Editor of Every Day Poets and I'm very proud of that. I've learned a lot in a year.

You never know what a year holds but I hope 2010 holds Health, Happiness and Success in all your endeavours - and of course mine too :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

John Hurt played it with style

I really enjoyed this evening with Quentin Crisp - An Englishman in New York :) John Hurt plays him so well there really is no barrier to belief. And he plays him with great humanity, which was a mark of the man himself. I remember seeing QC on stage some 30 years ago and it is a night I have never forgotten.