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Tag: creative writing
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Smoke Beyond the Moor: Heathcliff’s Lost Heritage
Author’s note This expanded reimagining grew from my earlier piece, Smoke Beyond the Moor — Heathcliff. The original remains on the site as it was written. This version keeps the same premise, but gives Heathcliff more room to think, remember and discover what may have been hidden from him. This is not presented as Emily…
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Smoke Beyond The Moors-Heathcliffe
Introduction This is not a rewriting of Wuthering Heights. It is an imagining of the silence around it. In Emily Brontë’s novel, Heathcliff arrives without history, a child from Liverpool, marked as “Gypsy,” and treated as other from the moment he steps through the door of Wuthering Heights. The text gives us fragments of who…
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The Scent of Death Hung in the Air
The Scent of Death Hung in the Air I left my family singing and telling ghost stories and I walked into the village to buy bread. My little sister danced happily around the fire as my mother prepared the meal.I heard a slow rumble of thunder and looked to the sky as the military trucks…
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Ringlets Of Red
Ringlets of red, Eyes open wide. Headteacher usher’s child inside.The room goes quite 48 eyes on me Be nice to Violet she’s a Gypsy you see.Confused and lost a bewildered child, dying with shame and pain inside. Was my culture of vital importance? When leading a lamb out to slaughter.Somewhere to sit Let’s find you…