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Mrs Magpie

Weekly Contest #15

Tom says I’m a magpie. Looking around our bedroom, I’m inclined to believe him. 19 years we’ve been together. 19 Christmases, 19 birthdays. The results are coiled in dishes, hung from hooks, strewn on ornaments glittering with jewels themselves. I just need a beak and feathers. My daughter Andrea says it’s like entering Aladdin’s cave. As these things tend to go, Andrea’s look is the opposite of mine. She likes minimalism and block colors. Sharp tailoring. Natural make-up, if she chooses to wear any at all. Her beauty shines all the brighter...

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The Dream Catcher

Squirrelly Writer

Weekly Contest #13

“What did I say about slowing down?” Todd panted as he caught up with his sister. Her little 8-year-old legs concealed a turbo speed that belied their length. He was momentarily troubled by how his choice of words was taken straight out of his mother’s phrasebook, but he quickly pushed her memory aside. He didn’t like to think of the article he’d read earlier that day online had said Halloween sees a blurring of the boundaries between the living and the dead.“I’m sorry Todd,” she turned a chocolate smeared smile towards him. “This is excitin...

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Shorn

Squirrelly Writer

Weekly Contest #11

Dear diary,This morning Mummy took me to the hairdressers with her. I was to sit quietly with my book and behave, Mummy said. I didn’t think her hair needed cutting but she said it was starting to look like a bird’s nest. I asked if that might mean birds might come and lay eggs in it and then we could eat them for tea, which Daddy found very funny.I don’t get my hair cut when I go with Mummy. I go to the barber when Daddy goes. Mummy says it’s much cheaper to do it that way. The barber is nice to me but loud and smells of cigarettes and his ...

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Author bio

Raised by diplomats (she was always 'the new kid' in school), Squirrelly is currently living in Hove, England. A former copywriter and librarian, now turning her hand to creative writing. Yet frequently distracted by squirrels.

Published in Viva Brighton, Borderline Stories, Sensorially Challenged, and shortlisted on Reedsy. She is currently working on her second novel (the first was just a practice run); a black comedy about overpopulation and climate change. Looking for an agent.

Firmly anti-AI.

Caution: her stories may contain swear words and scenes of an upsetting nature. But also jokes.

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1 shortlisted story ⭐️

Contest #78

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