This Week’s Dragon’s Pen Snippets

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As the taxi pulled up outside the tall building of the school, I knew my life was going to be totally different.

MOVING by Jenn Worrall

 

As a car unfolding

The landscape with

Its speed

MOVING by Ruth Aylett

 

 

They had had a half of bitter and a shandy and feeling drunk on beer and love, they had tottered back to their guest house.

 

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER by Anne Duguid

 

 

I look back at all the moving and see nothing stayed the same

see my roots pulled from beneath me as I took my husband’s name

MOVING… by Abbie Burns

 

 

 

“You’re a funny old bird,” he said, “a taxi, do you want to share a taxi, that’s all?”

GAME OVER by Joanne Ross

 

 

This is the path chosen for you.

COURAGE by Nicola Dobbie

 

 

We laughed about it later because he was so nice to me; he even bought me a dozen cans of beer to make it up to me.

A COMPLEX LOVE STORY by Ellen McMillan

 

 

Promising far more than it had ever delivered.

MOVING by Judith Butler

 

 

The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I spilt yoghurt on a clean kitchen floor.

MOVING! by Nita Saini

 

watching her sleep

in a stuffed up chair,

MY MOTHER’S MOTHER by Donna Campbell