Quill pen (Wikimedia)

Prose experiments



Our task was to spend five quiet minutes recording all that we heard, saw, touched, tasted - I stood outside in the falling snow (December 2012):

Five Minutes of Snow


This is a "flash fiction" monologue: short and sharp! (Autumn 2012):

Fancy Dress


I wrote this descriptive narrative after walking around Venice on my own very early one morning (November 2012):

A Walk in Venice


We were asked to observe two people in the street, invent their back stories then bring the 2 characters together in an imagined dialogue (February 2013):

Dialogue - Declan & Max