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Weekly Contest #77
What a wretched place. ‘Wretched’ wasn’t a word that tended to occur naturally to Harriet, but there it was, tragically cliché and every bit as ugly as The Cottage itself. Usually she enjoyed snow, but then usually it could be enjoyed in comfort. Wrapped up, with a hot chocolate, watching pale fluttery flakes fall from behind panes of previously underappreciated double glazing. Possibly there was booze involved. She recalled such snows dreamily, from under a duvet as thick as she could buy, but as cold as stone all the same, and she wished s...
Weekly Contest #47
It’s stiflingly hot, the sun beating through glazed glass doors is barely checked by the floor length drapes, the drapes that you thought might curb the biting heat. You were wrong, but that’s nothing new. You are no home maker. Actually, you’re pushing thirty and still living the student lifestyle. Two day old pizza and beer is the entire contents of your chugging fridge, because even that barely works, another sound second hand investment. You could have bought new but, well that would have cut into your booze...
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