Creative Writing from Taunton Library

Three Little Words Three Little Words Chapter 1 – Curtains       Slowly she woke from a deep and dreamless sleep. She pulled the bed covers up to her neck and tried to get back to where she had come from.     Chinks of light stole into the room illuminating the peel plasterwork and the damp smears of what was once an elegant room.     Why had circumstances change, why was she alone? Her thoughts raced back to her husband’s arrest. A Royal officer, a Sergeant at Arms no less and his 4 henchmen had dragged him away. At last she rose, shivering as her feet met the cold bare floorboards; she broke the ice on the pail of water left for washing. Was she now a widow? Of that she was certain Elizabeth I had no time for treason.     Morose and downtrodden she washed, dressed and tried to make her unruly hair behave and pin it under her quoif.     She allowed a long sigh to escape her lips expressing her despair...