Dragon’s Pen – More Snippets!

This week our Dragon’s Pen snippets mostly come from the shortlisted poems and short stories.

So here’s one of each:

Nae Way Back
Poster for Nae Way Back

 

 

 

 

Mind ye ah did think ah wis raither smairt

 

from NAE WAY BACK by Ethyl Smith (shortlisted short story entry)

 

 

 

 

 

20 Primrose Street
Poster for 20 Primrose Street

 

 

 

Their flat full to the gunnels
with furniture for a future house,
my parents hung chairs
on nail-decked walls,

 

from  20 PRIMROSE STREET, 1972 – by Helen Addy (shortlisted poem)

 

 

 

 

Check back tomorrow for more of the shortlisted entries and come in from the end of this week to sit down with a cup of tea and read all the entries here at GWL.

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