Tag Archives: loss

The Search Party

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Helen

He stayed out past the time the search party gave up. He knew he was probably searching for her ghost now, his little girl, because he knew the statistics of time and missing children and he knew the rumours of … Continue reading →

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The White Lady

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Helen

After a while the people stopped visiting the house. It didn’t matter how grand the estate was, or what the purple prose of the advertising said. ‘Come see a place as close to Pemberley as you’d ever imagine’ they said … Continue reading →

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Carousel

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Helen

This carousel makes you ride forever. It takes you somewhere else. It’s a portal, don’t you see? To a world of infinite games, infinite fun, infinite youth. That’s the sales pitch, anyway. Parents who don’t want their children bring them … Continue reading →

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Portal

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Helen

Mommy disappeared into the portal on Saturday. Daddy said he thought she didn’t mean too, but she did anyway. Mommy often did things she didn’t really mean to, it was one of her things. One of Daddy ‘s things was … Continue reading →

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My Story

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Helen

Everyone has a story so they say And this may be as it is But be that as it may It does not follow here That any need agree Another’s point of view Means anything to me Or that I … Continue reading →

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Train

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Helen

When I was young my father once took me to see an old train which was kept as a kind of historic relic at the train yard. In those days that sort of trip was exciting, because my father was … Continue reading →

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Lost Girl

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Helen

The forest swallows up The little lost girl Hungry for life To replenish its aching soil Parents will grieve The little lost girl Wandering the pathways Where her little feet have trod She’s just one of many The little lost … Continue reading →

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Tempest Rising

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Helen

They took it all from her. Everything she loved, everything she even stopped a moment to care for, to value. The townsfolk barred her from her home, chased her from the streets. It was too long ago for me to … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Alien

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Helen

So long ago, a millennium or more in your time, we evolved. We rose out of the whirlpool of our world to achieve what your Buddhists call the release from attachment. Perfect detachment. Our physical form relaxed and withdrew to … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Blackbird

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Helen

The blackbird came rarely, and when it came, it brought death in its wake. No-one knew why. It was just a bird, and acted no differently to its feathered kin. But time and again this one returned, and every time, … Continue reading →

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