Creative Writing from Taunton Library

Creative writing group January 2017 Judi Tregillus I didn't know what was happening.  I had tried to remember what I did last time, the order of things, but the more I tried the harder it became.  The screen flashed! It hadn't done that before.  Numbers popped up!  Where had they come from?  I'm sure I had pressed the correct buttons, done things in the right way, but all to no avail.  Why did it always happen to me?  Other people did what I had done, and it seemed to work for them.  I'm sure there are some gremlins, little men sitting in there, just waiting for me.  I'm sure they have a grin on their faces when things don't go as I thought they would. They must chuckle to themselves.  My family always tell me it's not the machine, it's me, but I don't believe them.  They're out to get me, these computers!! June Kahita I DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING I put my teddy under the table, he had been very naughty. ...

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...