Category: Short Stories

Here’s a draft of the final story I wrote for the creative writing class I’ve been attending at Birkbeck University. I’m learning more and more, but still inventing the plot as I go along, so later down the line the beginning of the story starts to feel irrelevant. This means I probably should do some…

“I lay for a while on my back with my head poking out of the tent flap, looking up at the darkening night sky. It was a peculiar shade of orangey grey that I had never noticed before. Cloud cover completely hid any heavenly bodies that might have been waiting to twinkle down at me. …

Another story. Each of the class chose a character from a list. I chose Wing Commander Ronald Mason, retired, aged 76. I thought it might be nice to describe someone who I wouldn’t normally write about. Again, still not sure of the wisdom of uploading these stories. It keeps them all in one place at…

This is the first story written for the creative writing class I’m attending at Birkbeck University. It’s also the first story I’ve finished since leaving school 18 years ago. Both of these facts should scream ‘DON’T POST IT ON THE WEB!’ to any sane person, but I’ve thought about it, a bit, and decided to…