Fifty Word Challenge #58: Butterfly Effect
That’s the reason I keep booking events to go to
It all started when I went into hospital the third time in June. It was just before my 60th birthday and I felt it was important to mark the start of my seventh decade with something special. …
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Thrifty Word Roundup #37 & #58: Back-up Plan
It’s always good to have a contingency plan, or so I was brought up to believe. Though in my experience, things rarely go to plan — A or B.
Still, it’s good to try. Currently, we’re having a new bathroom installed in our house. It’s something we’ve been planning for…
Fifty Word Challenge #58: ‘Back-up Plan
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Thrifty Word Challenge 100 #37 & 50 #58: Back-up Plan
(Last week’s outtage is) “preview of what will happen if anyone tries to regulate Facebook. Zuck will shut everything down, fly into space with Elon, and create a new society on Mars.” – Chris Hedges, TBI editor
I panicked when I realised I couldn’t contact some people on WhatsApp on…
Fifty Word Challenge 57: Imagination
A poem
Whole of life sentence is justice
For your crime
Your misuse of power
Is beyond the defined
You handcuffed that poor woman
Knowing you had no right
You raped her then took her life
On that warm dark night
Perhaps this just judgement
will stop the next man wishing
to harm a woman
In memory of Sarah Everard.
Fifty Word Challenge #56: Free Speech
Hacked Off
Why can’t Twitter get me my stolen account back?
Marla Bishop
Londoner, philosophy graduate, journalist, relationship coach, wife & mother. MA in Novel Writing; working on 1st novel. Follow me: https://linktr.ee/Marla
