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Morpeth a year on

This time last year, torrential rain caused extensive flooding in the North East town of Morpeth. Cars floated down The Wansbeck, people were evacuated, homes were ruined and historic buildings damaged.

Since then the town has made a remarkable recovery and once more the river is a tame and pleasant companion to this ancient, pretty, market town.

Just this afternoon I met a total stranger in Morrisons and we had a most interesting conversation about literature, C.S.Lewis to Bill Bryson through Asimov - shocking the things that go in these supermarkets! :)

Anyway, this one is for

The Wansbeck

Water seeps through thirteenth century walls,
inundating present gift-shop stalls.
The Chantry sings the river’s song.

That sanguine stream that snaked its way through town
drowns years in minutes. Snake turned serpent-bound,
joins in singing the river’s song.

Untamable, it finds its torrents course
and hungry for possession, takes by force.
Still louder grows the river’s song.

Be gone, it sings, litter my banks no more.
I will flow freely where I’ve flowed before
and you will learn the river’s strong.

© Oonah V Joslin 2008

September Links

On the very last day of the month The Devils Within http://www.everydayfiction.com/

And http://www.thefrontview.com/2009/09/celebration-of-life-oonah-v-joslin.html This one I really like. A Celebration of Life - one of my shortest chillers ever! And my first in this very smart publication :)

The Trouble with Turquoise at http://www.bostonliterarymagazine.com/fall09poetry.html#fall09turquoise.html
Fret at http://bewilderingstories.com/issue354/fret.html

You know all the songs is up here and I garantee you do know all the songs but who wrote the lyrics? http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/youallknowthesongs.htm

A Tall One all right! Over at Micro Horror http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/tall-one/

Matter Matters just sort of expanded outside the parameters of my normal length and I was so pleased that it got a home at BwS where you can read it now.
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue352/matter_matters2.html It's about matter and love matters and what matters... Hence the title, I suppose.

Big Bad John is over at http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html now

and over at Static Movement you can read
Slivers of Memory http://www.staticmovement.com/sliversofmemory.htm
sliversofmemory
“We just got in the way,” Todd laughed. He always prided himself that, being a year and a half older, he remembered things that much better. That was how the arguments always began – not that they ever came to blows but they usually parted in sullen mood. “D'you remember Granddad's car?”

Please read the daily poems at http://www.everydaypoets.com/ too.

September at EDP &EDF

EDP's Table of Contents for Spetember's e-zine is here:

http://www.everydaypoets.com/septembers-table-of-contents/#respond

Check it out.

And my story The devils within is coming up in http://everydayfiction.com/ on the 30th Sept. :)

http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2009/08/ello-ello-whats-all-this-ear-then/
Thanks for the plug Jonathon :) Jonathon has a story there on Sept 1st folks!

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Nick Ozment at EDF

with a weird one!
http://www.everydayfiction.com/orange-dreamsicles-and-belly-rings-by-nicholas-ozment/#comments

Nick is one of the editors of Every Day Poets http://everydaypoets.com and an all round good egg.

Visit both sites why don't you? And if you missed mine the other day - see below!

True colours is up at EDF http://www.everydayfiction.com/true-colours-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comments
and an interview at www.writewords.org.uk where I am trying to promote EDP :)

I've been doing a garden tidy up and making jam this week. I really must get subbing! September is nearly upon us.