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Nov 2, 2020

Watcher Under The Table – A Poem By Carol J Forrester

Exhausted, your prostate yourself,legs aloft and crooked,chin tilted towards some ceiling corneras if to suggest you were focusedon anything...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 29, 2020

Jörmungandr – A Poem By Carol J Forrester

I’ll start at the toes,short,and not quite in jointwith one another. Pause around the ankles.Suckle themlike gobstoppersto the marrow....

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 27, 2020

Age Old Tradition – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

I should have taken that course,the one with the guywho builds drystone walls up northfor the farmers who have...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 26, 2020

The Year After Last – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Squirming at the pumpkin guts, your hands scooped into ladles, spooning palmfuls of seed and sludge. We took desert...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 22, 2020

Bubble-Wrap Knuckles – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Fireworks popping off underneath skin,an explosions against the brickwork.Blood so bright it burns my retinasand when I dreamed I...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 20, 2020

A Clever And Cruel Man – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

You and your dim accuracy,head lolled loose eyes whitened and widenedtill the pupils blink out.Words come clipped,ransomed love lettersread...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 19, 2020

Fox In The Hen House – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Their heads bob like drinking birds,of course, of course, of course.Necks pulled up from their collar bones.I have never...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 13, 2020

Late Cropping Raspberries – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Last of the soft fruits,these blooms are redder, fatter,skins splitting sticky on a palm.Drew my tongue along a lifeline,caught...

by Carol J Forrester
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Ten Years Of Blogging And Have I Learnt Anything From It

by Carol J Forrester

Today is the ten year anniversary of Writing and Works. That’s right, I’ve been mad enough to continue blogging for ten years. I started this site so that I would have somewhere to share my writing, and hopefully reach people who would want to read it. Since then, the site has changed and morphed slightly. During my first year blogging, I didn’t post any...

Oct 30, 2020
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Flash Fiction & Short Stories

Nov 9, 2020

The Walls Whistle – Flash Fiction #DVersePoets

They bought the house new, especially to avoid these sorts of things.There is nothing behind the wall, except a...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 26, 2020

Plan Gone To Ancient Crete #FlashFiction #WritingPrompt

Grinning, the newsreader finished his story and muttered something half-funny to the reporter next to him. Edmund muted the...

by Carol J Forrester
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Oct 4, 2020

Gods Out Of Men – #FlashFiction

When the coffee runs out, she drinks tea instead. It’s bad, overly floral and cloying. She drinks it anyway,...

by Carol J Forrester
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Sep 22, 2019

Heart Of The Dead #FlashFiction #SeptemberSpeculativeFictionPrompt

When the bodies washed ashore, the novices were there to pluck them from the mud. It wasn’t pleasant work....

by Carol J Forrester
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Doodle Wednesday

by Carol J Forrester

Since the launch of my poetry collection I’ve been struggling to write much in the way of poetry, so I’ve picked up my sketch pad and pencils instead. The image above was actually from a poem idea that I’ve been swirling around for a few days. The hand is my own, and I used a photo of my hand holding an empty wine glass...

Dec 11, 2019
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by Carol J Forrester

Carol J Forrester loves history, myth, and her farming family. She often exploits all three in her poetry, but no god or relative has demanded she stop so she’s getting away with it for now. Her flash fiction story ‘Glorious Silence’ was named River Ram Press’ short story of the month August 2014 and her short story ‘A Visit From The Fortune Teller’ was...

Aug 13, 2016
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