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Category - Creative Writing

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Inktober – Week Three

October 30
by Tom Spooner
17 min read

Week Three. One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October. Week One and Week Two Day 15 Black Eyes, Burnt Thumbs With black eyes, burnt thumbs and rouge on her cheeks of an...

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seagulls bristol harbourside illustration inktober
  • Art
  • Creative Writing

Inktober – Week Two

October 16
by Tom Spooner
12 min read

Week Two. One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October.   Day 8 Voiceless There was nothing left of his voice. It had deserted him along with most of the other things that he...

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Moon on the motorway inktober illustration (1)
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  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

Inktober – Week One

October 9
by Tom Spooner
10 min read

One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October.   Day One New Adventures You can find adventure everywhere – you only need to be open to it. When you’re next walking...

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first bus mobile app novella written
  • Creative Writing
  • Short Story

The Novella that the Mobile Bus App Ticket Wrote

August 13
by Tom Spooner
85 min read

A Novella – In Parts The Premise: First Bus, a south west bus company, issue digital bus tickets through their mobile app. I buy a weekly ticket to get to work and back. In order to prevent fraud and other naughtiness...

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bear with trees laura morgans art
  • Creative Writing
  • Short Story

Why I would choose a bear as my companion for an adventure

May 14
by Tom Spooner
7 min read

If I ever go on an adventure, I would choose a bear as my companion. Nobody really knows when they will need to go on an adventure. It’s impossible to predict. One minute you are doing your homework, the next you are thrashing...

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poem about sunday night
  • Creative Writing
  • Poem

the heart of Sunday night

March 19
by Tom Spooner
2 min read

There is crying tonight. You can sense it. Somewhere beneath the rain, the sound of the rain and the water flowing over the blocked drains. It’s the saddest kind of crying – the type not meant for anyone. There is an old man...

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Boscombe whale photograph short story
  • Creative Writing
  • Short Story

47 Steps of a Champion Bullshitter

February 27
by Tom Spooner
5 min read

He had heard it from the butcher’s boy who had heard it from the rag and bone man. The rag and bone man had been trying to convince the butcher’s boy to buy the wheels from a perambulator he had picked up in Blissford from a...

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man in coat wiltshire story
  • Creative Writing
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A Story Overheard – Stealing Coats

February 24
by Tom Spooner
3 min read

I have just overheard a story that my dad was telling his old friend on the phone. I have never heard this particular story before. It is not a big story; it is an anecdote. A surname that jogged something in my dad’s...

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beyond the stream micro fiction spooner
  • Art
  • Creative Writing

Inktober – Days 26 to 31

November 6
by Tom Spooner
9 min read

We made it! One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October – part five. Bangers The air was muggy with anticipation that Saturday afternoon. There were loud whispers about how these...

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seaside illustration
  • Art
  • Creative Writing

Inktober – Days 19 to 25

October 30
by Tom Spooner
10 min read

One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October – part four. Bathtime You can imagine yourself anywhere in a bath. It doesn’t matter what is outside of the water, outside...

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