Twenty people took part in the three creative writing sessions held by Anne Hamblen a local writer and creative writing tutor.
Below are some of the stories which people who attended the course wrote, read by the people who wrote them.
Broken by- Anne Hamblen
 | | Anne Hamblem |
" The history of our marriage is littered with his breakage's... the cracked bathroom mirror, I have looked at my self morning and night for so many years that I sometimes think that it has etched itself not as a slashed scar across my face but on my mind....."
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The Ambassadors - By Kay Massey
 | | Kay Massey |
" It wasn't until the drink was on the bar and I was told the exuberant price of it that I realised that my purse was in my bag in the car I searched my pockets which divulged 17p....."
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Twilight- By Ron Wright
 | | Ron Wright |
" On retirement he was given a carriage clock, little recognition for 40 odd years at the same firm, where his whole existence revolved around the clock his comings and goings recorded on the time machine..."
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The Oasis - by Sylvia Wright
 | | Sylvia Wright |
"Ann can you hear me? I heard his question and tried to nod my head but I was distracted by an awareness of movement somewhere in the murky fog ahead of me, I was trying hard to concentrate there seemed to be a dark shape forming in the mist...."
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Phone home - By Ann Dunstone  | | Ann Dunstone |
" My yearning for home was a constant pain, I fought with the conflict of my desire to teach, my need to study and my longing to be at home. The image of my family sitting at home on a Sunday night without me joining in with singing something simple was hard to bear...."
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Free Real player The Find a man campaign -by Liz Barton  | | Elizabeth Barton |
" My first effort was a grab a granny evening but not on my own and to save me from the rose tinted hue of alcohol I offered to drive. The venue was as seedy as the proceedings I watched the twinkling and flattering as the lonely and disenfranchised were herded together in the vain hope that some sort of connection would happen...."
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Halloween -by Maureen Matkin  | | Maureen Matkin |
" Ali didn't see his future as being too bad, he had plans, Bart his cell mate was an expert in all easy money activities, he had suggested a joint venture to go into business when they were free of their present restraints...."
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Hook, line and sinker- by Barbara Adamson  | | Barbara Adamson |
" I must be careful not to look like mutton dressed as lamb forty candles on the cake last month came as a bit of a shock but if I can surface from a tacky divorce still smiling what does another year matter. It seemed longer than a week since I read his cryptic message in the personal ads...."
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Aunt Ellen - by Patricia Brown  | | Patrica Brown |
" My Aunt was a lovely person little and jolly but her husband was a grumpy old so and so. My sister Ann was four years younger than me but we got along smashing. My aunt was my father's sister and I used to ask her where he was Oh he's off fighting somewhere I don't think she wanted to talk about it".
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